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Twelve Ways Students Can Build Relationships With College Professors

Developing a relationship with your college professor can be beneficial in many ways. Not only will you probably do better in the class, but a relationship with your professor may lead to future research opportunities, great letters of recommendation, and having a mentor in your field of interest. If you plan to ask for a…

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529 College Savings Plans: What Parents Need to Know

This post is sponsored by College Savings Plans Network, but opinions are our own. Hands down, a college degree is the single best investment a parent can make in their child’s future. But it’s also expensive. The tension between the need for a college degree and its cost is at the core of the anxiety…

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I Mark My Personal Loss In the Shadow of Our Collective Grief

On a sunny, cloudless 9/11 day, I lost my dad without the luxury of a goodbye or final words of closure. The suddenness of it sucked me into a vortex of anger, fear and longing. My father was a complicated man with secrets and life choices I am only now coming to terms with. Regardless, I…

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How To Cope When You’re Missing Your Big Kid So Much It Hurts

Awhile back, a sweet mom messaged me and asked if I had any suggestions on how she could cope with missing her newly-flown child. I know she’s not alone in wondering this. I’m wondering the same thing right this minute. This is SO HARD. What do we do? How are we supposed to feel? How…

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New Video From Original Host of ‘Blue’s Clues’ Hits Home

It’s been a mind-boggling twenty-five years since the popular show Blue’s Clues debuted. How can that be?!?! Steve, the much-loved original host of the show was abruptly replaced by his “brother” Joe in 2002. Steve has since said that he just felt it was more or less, the right time to leave the show. For…

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My Teens Don’t Always Listen to My Advice, I Give It to Them Anyway

My son has been obsessed with four-wheelers lately. He buys really old ones, fixes them up and rides them around. Sometimes this works out and sometimes it doesn’t. A few weeks ago he was out on a ride with his friends on a trail when his four wheeler made a loud noise and quit on…

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How to Throw a College Care Package Party With Friends

College kids love the care packages that their parents mail from home. But what happens when they rip open a box to discover that the goodies have been sent from someone else’s mom? Forty kids, all graduates from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, were treated to a surprise when their moms gathered together…

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Helping Your Daughter if Sorority Recruitment Doesn’t Work Out for Her

There is a saying when your daughter decides to go through sorority recruitment, “Trust the Process.” It is said repeatedly throughout the rush preparation period. It basically means, keep moving forward and in the end, you will find your sisters, and the sorority that is meant for you. I never asked, “What happens to the…

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Big Parenting Lie: The College Search Will Be SO Much Fun

As a parent of three, I’ve held fast to a number of myths over the years. (Content babies will mean a content personality forever) (If I can get them on the correct schedule, they will follow the schedule like robots) (If I just can teach them how to make eggs, they will not starve later…

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I Live With Hundreds of Your Students and They are Great Kids

My family and I live in a residential college on a mid-western university campus. My husband is a professor, but I am a regular civilian. When I have time away from my corporate life and my own two teenagers, I try to entertain myself by getting to know the 168 members of Gen Z, most…

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