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I Need to Love Myself to Be a Good Example to My Daughter

I watch my 14-year old daughter stand in front of the mirror, bemoaning the barely-there circles under her eyes and the perceived thinness of her eyebrows. She works concealer under her eyes and darkens her eyebrows with I-don’t-even-know-what.  She was not born critiquing her looks. As a little girl, she danced around gleefully in the…

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College Professor to Prospective Students: Embrace the Discomfort

I have taught in higher education for more than a decade, but I am not so removed from my own undergraduate experience that I can’t recall what a hot mess I was. No one would have looked at me as a college freshman, all of 17 years-old, the product of an all-girls Catholic high school…

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When Your Teen Has Social Anxiety, Every Day Is a Struggle for Them

My daughter used to love to talk to people. She made friends easily and whenever I picked her up from elementary school, she was always with her “girls.” At a young age she wanted to do gymnastics, play basketball and lacrosse, and she volunteered at the local animal shelter with her father because she loved…

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I Want My Sons to Grow Up Close: Built-In Best Friends for Life

“What are you doing?” my husband asked me, his eyebrow raised and his head cocked curiously at me as I stood outside our kitchen door, frozen in place. “Shhh…” I whispered. “They’re in there. Together. They’re talking!!” A look of understanding flashed across his face instantly and he gave a happy nod. This was a…

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Ten Popular Apps For Teens, College Students and Young Adults

We are all intensely focused on our devices, especially our teens. While it’s tempting to try to fight this reality, sometimes we need to learn to lean into the new technology. There are so many useful apps that are available for our teens to use, it’s hard to sift through them all, but we’ve done…

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Do’s and Don’ts of Finding and Living With the Right College Roommate

Finding the right roommate can make or break your college experience. You will be spending a lot of time with your roommate, so it is important that the two of you get along well. Many colleges assign roommates after students fill out questionnaires, but, if you have a choice to pick your own, here are…

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Why Trade School Is a Great Option for Teens to Consider

My son came out of my womb wanting to do stuff. He loved moving furniture at a young age. Any time I tried to paint a room, he wanted in. When I went through my beaded-jewelry making stage, he’d get so excited when my beads came in the mail he had to be the one…

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The Problem With Your College-Bound Teen’s “Dream School”

With a high school senior living in my house, college applications and decisions are on my mind a lot these days. While my son and his friends don’t talk about it all that much, more and more students are applying early decision to highly competitive schools, and I’ve heard the term “dream school” mentioned several…

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Colleges Announce Graduation Plans for the Class of 2021

When the world shut down last spring, colleges scrambled to simultaneously wrap up the academic year virtually and figure out how to mark graduation for the Class of 2020. We reported on a number of very creative graduation ideas for high school graduations. There were drive-in movie graduations, a hat-toss mural created by parents, banners…

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Colleges Announce Graduation Plans for the Class of 2021?

When the world shut down last spring, colleges scrambled to simultaneously wrap up the academic year virtually and figure out how to mark graduation for the Class of 2020. We reported on a number of very creative graduation ideas for high schools. There were drive-in movie graduations, a hat-toss mural created by parents, banners of…

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