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.

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

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

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 ...

Here’s a checklist of 50 things your teen might want to consider taking to their dorm. (Container Store) You and your soon-to-be college student have likely thought about the basics but here are 50 ...

Jenny Sachs is a psychotherapist with a Ph.D. in addiction psychology and an LCSW. She worked as a writer at an ad agency in her twenties, and she is finally getting back to writing but from ...

Before cell phones, before highly organized youth sports, and before the internet, there was time. Growing up in the late 80s, it was common for your mother to tell you to play. Of course, we always ...

My oldest daughter leaves for college this fall. It’s taken me every bit of her 17 years to finally be at peace with being a stay-at-home mom. It’s hard to type those words and even harder to read ...

We sent our daughter back to college alone. Family weekend, Mother-Daughter Rush Week, and Spring Break decimated our one-income travel budget. My husband and I both took airplanes alone back to ...

It often felt like too much. The chaos and noise of a house full of teens left us wishing for a break, for some time alone or with a friend or partner. Now we have that time, the loooooong quiet ...

Graduation is more than just a ceremony; it’s the culmination of hard work, dreams, and the threshold of a new beginning for our young adults. We want to offer hope and encouragement and let our ...