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Author and mom Christina Geist (Before You Fly Away: Life Lessons From Home) has advice for college drop off, especially for first time college parents.

Do you have the (free) Grown and Flown Off-to-College Checklist? It includes important financial, health and wellness, and legal things to check off your list before your teen leaves home. Download it ...

It happened again this week. Several times, in fact. I’m a university professor and my office is located directly across from the elevators. Because I maintain a literal “open-door” policy for my ...

It’s here. The day you have anticipated, dreamed about, and maybe even dreaded for 18 years has arrived. While college move-in day is a proud moment for any parent, that does not mean it isn’t a day ...

This time of year there is absolutely no escaping the plethora of heart wrenching articles about sending your kids off to college, and while we realize that this is a stressful, and anxious time, we ...

Raising two girls, I have found everything imaginable in the laundry. Except, of course, a cell phone, because that would be attached to a hand or an ear. Here are things I wanted my daughters to know ...

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We send our children off to college, often to places where we and they know not a soul and we hope that if there is a real problem, their friends and their school will see them through until we can ...