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We Need to Let Our Teens Know That It’s Okay to Just Say “NO”

When I was in college in the early ’90s, I worked at a summer camp where well-meaning counselors saw it as our job to encourage campers to be brave and to try new things. We cheered. We encouraged. We cajoled. And if I’m being honest, sometimes we pressured—maybe even low-key bullied.  Whether it was trying to…

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How a Parent Portal Undermines Teens’ Academic Success

I’ve been a mom with a school-age child for nineteen years now. When my children started school their report cards were mailed to us twice a year, once before December break and again before summer vacation. You only knew what your child chose to tell you about his grades, which gave the little darling ample…

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10 Myths About College Classes Debunked

College classes can be very different from high school classes. Many people make assumptions about college classes such as college classes are extremely difficult, and professors are very strict, but is this actually true? Ten myths about college classes debunked  1. Professors are always strict and mean This is false! High school teachers will often…

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Moving from Parent to Partner In the College Admissions Experience

Rick Clark is Director of Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech and the co-author of The Truth about College Admission Workbook: A Family Organizer for Your College Search. Rachel Lockman is a Certified Life Coach specializing in career and life transitions, ADHD, Dyslexia, and grief. She is the founder and CEO of Rachel Lockman Consulting.  While…

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Favorite College Care Package Ideas for Girls for 2021

For college students who have just moved to campus, a care package is a welcome surprise. We put together our favorite college care packages idea for girls with a few things that are true necessities for 2021 and others that will just make her smile. Note: We are a reader-supported site and receive compensation from…

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Why We Encouraged Our Son to Move Home After College Graduation

The Italians have a term for adult children living at home. Bamboccioni return to the nest largely due to the poor job prospects across the country. Here in the United States, we coined the term “Boomerang Generation” to refer to young adults who’ve lived on their own through college or other circumstances, yet return to…

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How Students With Disabilities, and Parents, Need To Prepare for College

Most college students can just show up on move-in day, attend orientation, and settle in without a hitch. However, for students with disabilities, including chronic health conditions, mental health conditions, physical disabilities and learning disabilities, the process of transitioning to college should begin well before moving in. For nearly six years, I served as the…

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College First Year to Senior: 5 Miraculous Changes Will Make You Proud

If you’ve dropped off a kid for their freshman year of college, I bet you have a hilarious story about something that happened on move-in day that had you thinking to yourself, “There is no way I can just leave my kid here. He’s never gonna make it. He may be an academic all-star, but…

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The Hardest Part of Parenting Is Hearing “Mom, Your Work Here Is Done”

Recently, my little family attended a beautiful memorial service for my godmother, a woman who had been like a second mother to me, and whose children were my surrogate cousins. The day was full of nostalgia, memories, and reconnecting with people that distance and the pandemic had kept us from.  Thanks to social media, many…

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Eight Rules for My High School Grad Who Is Working and Living at Home

My oldest graduated high school last June and I’m finding myself in very unfamiliar territory. For so long, we were in the routine of school and carpooling and he had a reasonable curfew. Now that he is eighteen and taking some time to figure out what he wants to do with his life and what…

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