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13 Things Nobody Tells New College Grads About Finding a Full-Time Job

After graduating with a college degree, you go straight to working in your dream job, right? I found out the hard way that this isn’t the case for many college grads and it can actually take months to find the right job. For a lot of people, finding a job isn’t easy and can be…

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How Parents Can Help College Students Manage Stress

Parents of new college students often wish they could peek inside their child’s world and help them from afar. They want to know what their child’s biggest stressors are, how they’re adjusting, and more. Well, as a college writing instructor, I can tell you when your child needs your support most — it’s during the…

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I Need to Stop Anticipating My Empty Nest and Live In the Moment

My oldest son graduated last Spring and is rarely home even though he still keeps a bed here. Between his job, hobbies, and social life I might see him twice a week. We text several times throughout the day and I know he mostly responds to appease me–he knows I miss him terribly. Since I…

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Stocking Stuffers for Teens and College Students That Will Make Them Smile

When your older kid lumbers into the family room on Christmas morning, takes their stocking down from the mantle and looks inside, you might catch a glimpse of their little kid self. Here are favorite stocking stuffers for teens, college kids and young adults. We are a reader-supported site and receive small amounts of compensation…

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College Kids Say This, but They Really Mean This…

I have always said that 80% of parenthood involves good old-fashioned detective work. From those early days attempting to read the signals from your newborn, to interpreting preteen sighs and grunts to identifying those elusive smells—parenting is gritty work.  However, never does a parent’s inner Magnum PI become more heightened than when a child leaves…

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Teenage Boys Can Be Hard to Love, Love Them Anyway

“Ohh how blessed you are to have all boys! Little boys…..ohh, they just love their mamas!” This must have been said to me from kind-hearted strangers for the better part of a decade. Whenever I had two or more of my young sons with me out in public, someone would inevitably make a comment about…

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10 Ways Teens and College Students Can Cope With FOMO

Your teen is scrolling through social media and sees that their friend has posted a picture at a birthday party or at a dinner that they didn’t get invited to. Understandably, they feel upset, lonely, isolated and wonder why they weren’t invited. Another word for this phenomenon is FOMO or ‘fear of missing out,’ which…

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College Readiness: How to Know if Your Teen is Prepared

I sent three kids off to college with barely a thought about whether they were ready. When I saw what were clearly some red flags in high school – missed homework assignments, poor time management – I chose to ignore those problems rationalizing to myself that there is a lot of growth that goes on…

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This Is What I’ve Always Wanted for My Sons, but It Stings

It’s a tale as old as time, but now that I’m a character in that tale, I have to admit, it stings a bit.  It’s one thing to know something, quite another to feel it. My son has found the one for whom his soul yearned and that’s a good thing. It’s not merely a…

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Daughter Without a Mother: You Need Your Friends More Than Ever

I was running errands on my way home from work. A typical Thursday. A podcast playing in the background. A woman being interviewed said she had saved a voice message from her mother who had passed away and how listening to this message brought her so much joy. Hmmm. I wondered if I had a…

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