What parents don’t always think about are invisible skills that, for many teens, matter more than any "college essential" ...

Clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour has counseled teens and families for decades. Still, it wasn’t until her oldest daughter applied to college last year that she truly understood how the process ...

I did not let my sons make a college decision alone. I just didn’t. When they knew their options, I did not throw up my hands and say, “It is your life, it is your four years, it is your decision. I ...

If you sent a baby off to college a couple months ago, there’s a good chance right about now that you’re over the moon with the fact that the holidays and winter break are right around the corner. You ...

Here are our gift lists for parents shopping for teens and college students. We hope you find just what you are looking for to make this holiday season a little brighter for your son or daughter.

The wait is over. Our college students are home for the holidays. I’ve grown accustomed to empty nesting, faster than I’d ever anticipated, but I still looked forward to shoes cluttering the hallway ...

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It’s spring of senior year, and your daughter has received great news. “Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that….” She breaks into a huge smile, followed by tears of joy as she learns she ...

Dear Kids, Okay, for starters and the record: this promise is a re-gift. This is an example of doing unto others what was done unto you. Specifically, your wonderful grandparents, did this to your dad ...

I am one of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of people navigating around your college students as they stumble through the waning days of their fall semester. My husband is one of their professors, and ...

The teenage brain is not just an adult brain with fewer miles on it,” says Frances E. Jensen, a professor of neurology. “It’s a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharp brains ...