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Editor’s note: Author and award-winning journalist, Vanessa Grigoriadis visited dozens of college campuses and spoke with hundreds of students and administrators in researching the complex and ...

Dropping off your student at college can be stressful for many parents. It’s hard to know what your student wants. I know that parents struggle to figure out how they can help and be supportive while ...

It’s summer after high school graduation for my twins Sophia and Liv, and each family member of our four has complicated feelings about their imminent departure to (the same) college across the ...

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 ...

Man, it’s tough to keep those connections intact once they’re out of the house. It seems to get harder the older and more independent they become, especially if they live far away. Is it just the ...

When my boys were younger, the magic of the holidays wasn’t hard to come by. They were all in. Santa, the naughty list, lights, and stockings were the talk of our house for weeks. Photo credit Maureen ...

I can generally tell when our youngest child’s birthday is nearing by the battle between my husband and me regarding whether or not it’s time to turn on our heat. For some time now, on the dry-erase ...

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 ...

There is perhaps nothing more sentimental on a wedding day than mom’s first dance with her son, the groom, except the father-daughter dance, but that’s for another post. The mother-son wedding dance ...

It was the day I’d both dreamed about and dreaded for months: dorm room move-in day. As a local starting at Arizona State University in the fall of 1987 (I lived just 20 minutes up the road) I had ...

As communities begin to open up and families slowly emerge out of pandemic living, many parents have asked me, “What should my kids be doing this summer so they are prepared for the next school year?” ...