It’s happening. All over the country, young people are headed back to college after holiday break. Tens of thousands of bright-eyed co-eds are leaving homes with suitcases of freshly folded laundry, and some new garments with new care instructions to ignore. No matter how many laundry baskets and quarters you...
Read MoreSummers turn on us. Over twenty years of raising children, the waning days of summer have come to create in me an irritating state of mind, a free-floating anxiety and guilt. That back-to-school, so-much-to-do, what-am-I-forgetting switch flips on in August. It was about this time every summer when my daughters...
Read MoreYour daughter may not be ready to say this, but we found one who is. Enjoy these sweet words from a smart college senior. And easy with the ‘I told you so’s.’ You’re still a role model. By Maria Davison For the last few years, my sisters and I have...
Read MoreIt has been said that difference between the person you are today and the person you will be years from now will determined by the people you spend your time with. It's irrefutable. Friends matter.
Read MoreMy newly graduated daughter is starting a new job soon, and I’m trying to learn the protocol. What, I wonder, is MY ROLE in this exciting milestone? It didn’t come in the rule book, and the mommy bloggers are unusually silent on the topic. Evidently, there is no “take your...
Read MoreI’ve figured out what is so difficult about these fleeting moments of summer vacation with college kids at home: I miss them. The kids, I mean. No mother should be surprised to see very little of her grown children when they come home for summers and holidays. We learn this...
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