After years of loving the simplicity of apartments, I bought a single-family home, me on the top floor, “kids” renting the ...

We can mirror gratitude for our high school and college students, showing them how to express appreciation even when life is ...

Dartmouth professor's new book on college friendships is based on her twenty years of teaching and research on the topic.

Sending your son a college care package of practical and fun things can be a nice surprise for him. (Shutterstock iaginzburg) As the parent of both a daughter and a son who are students, I can say ...

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These boys! I will miss them as they all head in different directions. I will miss the boys, but how I’ll miss the mommas. I love and appreciate the strong young men they have raised. My boy has grown ...

Raising children involves preparing them for what’s to come. Practicing new routines and discussing unfamiliar and potentially challenging scenarios to reassure teens that the unknown isn’t totally ...

My son used to play every team sport he could. We were constantly running from activity to activity, and he loved it. He wasn’t afraid to try and do things, even if he wasn’t very good at it — he just ...

Tonight my heart was crushed as my 17-year old daughter confessed to me she had cried not once but twice to two separate family members while we were together at a family birthday gathering. I was ...

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I love this page…Grown and Flown. I have been following it for several years, since my oldest was still in high school. He is now 21. Each article I read, I think, I could have written that! Wow. We ...

There is a scene in the movie The Passion of Christ where the Virgin Mary has flashbacks of comforting Jesus at certain points during His childhood. When I first watched the movie, it resonated with ...