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June 13, 2021
Dorm Shopping With My Son, What This Boy Mom Is Packing
We told him that we would take him shopping for “school supplies” but for the first time in 13 years, he was excited about the shopping trip. A little background…I’ve always been excited about school supply shopping. It is the Amazon list I keep current, not the Christmas list. Admittedly, the experience of public school classroom…
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June 12, 2021
19 Things Every 19-Year-Old Needs to Be Able to Do
Former Stanford dean and author, Julie Lythcott-Haims wrote an inspiring and thoughtful piece on what our 18-year-olds should be able to do on their own. It followed on the heels of her New York Times bestseller, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success. For most teens, 18 is…
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June 11, 2021
Teens, This Is YOUR Summer So Please Go Out and Grab It
Hey kids, summer 2021 has officially started so I’m cutting right to the chase. Please listen up. I’m not your mom so perhaps you’ll listen to a stranger’s advice for more than eight seconds. Get out there this summer, don’t sit and stare at a screen all day You did not survive a pandemic to…
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I Had a Miserable Freshman Year in College. How I Turned It Around
My freshman year of college was one of the worst years of my entire life. It seemed like everything was going wrong and it was nothing like I had imagined college would be. I wanted to leave and go to community college because I was miserable. After my terrible freshman year, things started to change,…
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I Had a Miserable Freshman Year in College. How I Turned it Around
My freshman year of college was one of the worst years of my entire life. It seemed like everything was going wrong and it was nothing like I had imagined college would be. I wanted to leave and go to community college because I was miserable. After my terrible freshman year, things started to change,…
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June 7, 2021
20 Iconic 80s Teen Movies You Want to Watch With YOUR Teens
Growing up in the 80s, movies always made a big impression on me. I had three siblings and we were a one-income family so the day my father came home with a VCR was huge. We hardly went to the movies. We’d stay in and my mom would pop popcorn, or heat up a Salisbury…
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June 6, 2021
Youngest Son: Parenting the Last Time Around
My youngest son just moved himself home from college. He came home, borrowed my car, drove back to school, loaded it up and returned home for the summer. He never asked for my help at any point and like so much of his childhood, I just let him go. My oldest used to come home…
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How to Decorate a Guy’s Dorm Room: 23 Simple and Easy Ideas for 2021
Aside from the color scheme, we find that there isn’t much of a difference between decorating girls or guys dorm rooms. Many of these boy dorm room ideas can be modified in a few different ways (with colors and throw pillows) to create options that suit any space or taste. As you think about living…
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June 5, 2021
Pomp and Circumstance: Why Graduations Are Such Emotional Moments
For the first sixteen years of my life, my family lived on the campus of a residential school, where my father served as superintendent and my mother taught high school English. This meant that our lives were ruled by the school calendar. I still remember the excitement every August when I would go with my…
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How to Shop for College: 30 Bestselling Dorm Essentials for Freshman 2021
Ever wonder what’s on the checklist of the most popular college dorm essentials for freshmen? Here are some of the bestselling off-to-college items that Grown and Flown parents are buying for their teens. An important first step is to search the college website in the section under “Residence Life” to see what is prohibited, the…
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