My dog raised my kids as much as I did. If they have a family dog I tell them, “You’re lucky. There’s nothing better than a ...

Worried about paying for college? You’re not alone. College expenses continue to rise and the process of finding affordable colleges and applying for financial aid is complex. Families need clear ...

Years ago, when our daughter went to sleep-away camp for the first time, I was wildly overwhelmed by the packing list. Ordering the regulation t-shirts, following the luggage requirements, tracking ...

Hearing those words from my son, a high school senior, was very jarring. He told me about a conversation with a friend’s moms. His friend’s younger brother was struggling with many of the same things ...

Here are 40+ popular Christmas gifts for college guys — sons, nephews, or any young adult male on your holiday shopping list.

A popular meme gushes that mothers sleep better when all the teens are back home under one roof. I bet that meme was created the day those children arrived, or even days before. Because the reality of ...

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 ...

My father is going to India for three weeks. His last trip was to Spain; the time before that, he spent ten days in Morocco. He goes there yearly. The previous trip was to Turkey, and honestly, I ...

I found my people in college, but I’m pretty sure everything has changed. Yale, New Paltz, University of Colorado, Syracuse, U Mass: The universities my family and I visited were vastly different, but ...

I arrived at my house from the funeral home and went straight to bed. I’d been awake for nearly 36 hours, the final hours of my mom’s life. While saying my last goodbye, I was told by the hospital ...

On your 18th birthday, I wrote you a love letter that contained all the most important life lessons I knew at the time. Five years later, we have both grown and learned, sometimes the hard way. As you ...