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My son said this is my senior year, the greatest year of my life so far. I don’t want to worry about you being torn up about it.
My college kid has flown off to her next adventure, and I’m glad she’s gone. Now, I can relax and re-focus on my own world.
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 ...
It was pretty jarring when the application process began. Here are 4 unexpected things I learned along the college application journey ...
New freedoms await our teens when they turn 18 but there are the 3 things that 18 year-olds should start with when they come of age.
I found my people in college, but everything has changed. The campuses we visited were quiet. Students were plugged in to their phones.
My oldest daughter leaves for college this fall. It’s taken me every bit of her 17 years to finally be at peace with being a stay-at-home mom. It’s hard to type those words and even harder to read ...
This list includes fiction and nonfiction books, all of which have helped me, or I wish I had read before college. I think college freshman should read these 10 books Note: We are a reader-supported ...
Promposals have become a big deal and it's hard to be creative. We came up with some really great ideas for how to ask your date to the prom.
Graduation is the threshold of a new beginning for our young adults so we found great quotes and sayings about graduation.
College students looking for summer or full-time jobs can learn to make the most of AI when they are seeking a job.
This past summer, our eldest daughter got married. As a rule, I’m not particularly detail-oriented, and my organizational skills can best be described as, “It was here just a second ago.” But because ...