If you’re shopping for your off-to-college student, Amazon Prime Day is a great way to purchase true dorm essentials and popular extras at a discount. Luckily, we’ve done the legwork for you and ...

“Time for him to fly” “They have to leave the nest sometime” And the worst, “Next year you guys will be empty nesters.” I realize how self-involved this probably sounds. We have friends who have lost ...

Students don’t have to be fully formed when they go off to college, but they do have to be fully engaged. This starts with academics. Students will only get out what they put into their coursework.

You might think that since I’m a dean of admissions at a university, that my kids’ experience of applying to college would have been friction free. No. Teenage development includes a predictable ...

Grown and Flown was where I first saw the advice about how often to communicate with my college freshman. It was 2018, and we were just about to send the guinea pig off to a university three hours ...

I’m not sure anyone should be expected to survive this place–smack dab in the middle of the bridge, sandwiched between two very different options for exit. My son, my youngest child, is weeks away ...

Once you get your mail-in/absentee ballot, fill it out. Take a few minutes to read the instructions on your ballot carefully and make sure you fill it out correctly. Some states have an envelope ...

6 important things your young adult wedding guest should know 1. RSVP on time, and with no add-ons The concept and adherence of the RSVP has gotten a little lax over the last few decades. Many young ...

Looking back, I have two distinct buckets of memories. The first bucket held all my joy and fulfillment from being a stay-at-home mom —getting to see the world through my children’s eyes, helping them ...

I do things for them. Maybe too many things. I know it’s time to treat them more like adults, but it’s hard. Very hard. So, like toilet training (the first developmental milestone I couldn’t ...

I read this book later in my college career, and I wish I had read it sooner because not giving a f*ck is not one of my strong suits. The book advocates for focusing on the things in life that matter ...

I barely ate and stopped getting my period I was also barely eating, sleeping through classes and so thin I stopped getting my period. Today, elite athletes like Simone Biles, Michael Phelps and Naomi ...