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.

Three years after her son's leukemia remission, mother and psychotherapist reflects on fear, survival, and the bittersweet ...

Parenting teens can feel like raising strangers. Mom of 5 shares her "Alien Theory" and why a teen's distance is a normal ...

The screwdriver was still in my hand when I realized it. My son Eli was seventeen, standing in the doorway of his bedroom with a broken desk lamp in one hand and his phone in the other. He glanced at ...

It’s a Tuesday in October. Your kid has one class at 2pm. No one is texting reminders. No bell schedule. No teacher following up. And by the time evening rolls around, nothing has gotten done – not ...

She got the sweatshirt in April. The right one — the school at the top of the list, the one the family had visited twice, the one whose name produced a nod at dinner parties that required no follow-up ...

So you’re a grandparent now. Congratulations and welcome to the best club in the world. But what will your grandkids call you? We asked over 300 thousand parents what their grandparent names are, and ...

So many excited grandparents, looking forward to their own child having a child, wonder how they can best help once the new baby arrives. We don’t want to do too much and new families need quiet time ...

I’m writing this after a failed attempt at a holiday family vacation with my three children, 10 years after my divorce, while sipping tequila on the rocks, bingeing the fifth season of Emily in Paris, ...

On an ordinary Monday evening this past June, after hanging my new bird feeder and chatting with me over dinner about nothing in particular, my husband died suddenly. We had been empty nesters for ...

A while back, I wrote about the trials and tribulations of being the mother of four boys and how I heard that there was a special place in heaven for such mothers. At that particular time in my life, ...