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Favorite College Dorm Room Ideas for 2021 – Adorable and Easy!

There are few things that excite me more than an empty dorm room. After three years at boarding school and four years of college, transforming these small spaces in residence halls was something I looked forward to every summer. Here are some of my best tips (and secrets…)to making your college dorm room look more…

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How to Build A College List: What Experts Recommend

Are you a parent, mentor or other adult seeking to help guide a high school junior (or someone younger) through the early steps of the college process? How teens can build their college list We hope you will join us live on the Grown & Flown Facebook Page on March 10 at 8 pm ET for a…

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Dylan Dryer Has A “True Partner” In Parenting: Do You?

I read a piece in Today and couldn’t help but smile at its sweetness. Dylan Dryer posted a picture of her son and her husband on Instagram that gave her husband little “shout out” for being a devoted dad to her son Ollie who has had the croup. Dad stayed up with Ollie for two…

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Our Daughter Overdosed. We Landed in a World We Knew Nothing About

My family is coming up on the one year anniversary of a recent move we made. It’s been a tough change for our entire family but particularly for my husband and me. He and I never wanted to live where we are now. March 15th marks the one year attempt by our daughter to take…

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When Our Daughter Left for College We Filled the Void With a Puppy

When Lizzie left for college three and a half years ago, it felt like a part of me had disappeared, as if an invisible umbilical cord had been severed. I’d spent eighteen years being needed, from changing tiny diapers to organizing birthday parties to shuttling a carload of teenagers to speech and debate tournaments. Each…

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How to Make a “Years Book” Your Class of 2021 Grad Will Treasure

This year’s high school yearbooks are going to tell a very different story from the pages of the past. Students on yearbook staffs across our country deserve recognition for the creativity it surely takes to preserve a pandemic year for posterity. I imagine, though, that there will be a certain sadness at the loss of…

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High School Senior: The Danger in Assuming Your Safety School is Safe

This isn’t one of those “wow i got into college so now I’m an admissions coach and this is how to get into blah, blah, blah…” No. I’m specifically talking mental health, pressure, and ways to make your life less stressful during this time. I had a really hard time during application season and I…

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Senior to Teens: Here’s What Worked and Didn’t When I Applied to College

This isn’t one of those “wow i got into college so now I’m an admissions coach and this is how to get into blah, blah, blah…” No. I’m specifically talking mental health, pressure, and ways to make your life less stressful during this time. I had a really hard time during application season and I…

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“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” Movie With Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates

Margaret, Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. Do those names all together ring a bell? What if I add a few hints like, “When can I get my first bra,” and “When will I get my first period?” If you’re 40-something, I guarantee you know exactly what I’m referring to, and I bet just the thought of…

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Coming to Netflix “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal”

Netflix has just released a trailer for an upcoming docudrama called, “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal” which is based on the widely reported eponymous scandal that helped kids of the rich and famous get into colleges through what the scheme’s ringleader termed “side doors.” In that scandal, many parents admitted to paying a…

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