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Is My Family’s Holiday Destination or Teen’s College Town Safe? Tool Shows Covid Risk by County

As parents ponder taking their teens back to college or traveling this summer as a family, the risk of Covid-19 by geography becomes paramount. Is the college town in a safer area? Is the beach community high risk? We no longer need to speculate. A Harvard University collaborative launched a new tool today that parents…

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Best 2020 Holiday Gift Ideas for Teens and College Kids

This may be the very best time to dive into holiday shopping. Pour yourself a cup of coffee (or glass of wine) and log into your computer today, well before shopping anxiety starts to erode your festive spirit. Here is our list for 2020, filled with lots of intriguing Christmas gift ideas. Note: We are a…

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What if Instead of “The Lost Year” This is Actually “The Found Year”?

I can’t help but keep asking myself, what if the New York Times got it wrong? Two weeks ago, the cover of the NYT Sunday Magazine featured an article with the title, “The Lost Year,” and the picture of a very lonely and sad-looking student sitting in an empty classroom. Something about this, aside from…

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A Bucket of Old Baseballs and Grandpa’s Note Go Viral

Randy Long was cleaning out his garage when he came across a bucket of used baseballs. He dropped the bucket off at a local batting cage where he used to pitch balls to his son and grandson.  Nothing unusual there.  But Long attached a note to the bucket that clearly struck a chord with many,…

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Ever Enter Your Teens Bedroom Full of Hope And An Empty Trash Bag? This is for You

I beg my kids to clean out their stuff. I plead with them to bring the dirty glasses to the kitchen, give away the clothes they have not worn since middle school and stop eating out of the containers in their bedroom. I am talking to myself. When I enter their room with a white…

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Stanford Study: Help for Teens With Depression and Anxiety During Covid

A new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging “suggests that executive functioning in our brain plays a key role in protecting us against risk factors that worsen symptoms of depression and anxiety during stressful, uncertain times…”  These results are relevant for all of us but are particularly interesting for our…

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Socially Distanced Halloween: Four Fun Ideas for Teens and Families

Did the CDC just ban Halloween? Well not exactly, but as we have heard all throughout 2020, it will look different this year.  For those of us with older teens and young adult children, the new CDC guidelines have less of a sting. It is recommended that we “consider fun alternatives that pose lower risk…

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Parenting a High School Freshman May Be the Hardest Parenting Yet

Before I became a parent, I assumed parenting was hard.  Then I had my first baby and quickly realized that parenting is way harder than I ever could have imagined. When my baby became a toddler with his own big personality, an inhuman-like ability to slither like a snake out of my arms when he…

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I Had a Head Start In the “I Wasn’t Ready For This” Department

If I had been handed a crystal ball nineteen years ago when our daughter was born, I would have expected to see her heading to college in the Fall of 2020 – gearing up for a sports season, excited to get back to friends and classes, parties – maybe a love interest.  These many Octobers…

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Favorite Boots for Teens and College Students

Winter boots are a must-have for college students who attend school in cold and snowy climates. We recently asked our Grown and Flown Parents community to tell us which brands their teens love to wear. No great surprise that the girls’ lists were much, much longer than the guys, many of whom prefer to stick…

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