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How Your Teen Can Find a Virtual Volunteer Opportunity

I’m bored! There’s nothing to do! If these complaints are getting old at your house, I have an idea that can help put them to rest: Help your teen turn their focus from what they’re NOT getting to what they can be GIVING. With Covid-19, there are more people than ever in need of help and kindness.…

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17 Popular Board Games For Adults, Teens and College Kids (2020)

Board games are back! They have become surprisingly trendy with our screen-obsessed teens and young adults and they make a great college care package or holiday gift. Playing board games is a perfect bonding activity and will provide your teen with a reprieve from their schoolwork and from a computer screen. Game playing will also…

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After Voting, Here is One of the Most Important Things Your Young Adult Can Do On Election Day

The first thing to do is vote. It’s that simple. If our sons and daughters are over 18, it is nothing short of their civic responsibility. But after that is there anything our young people can do that truly moves the needle in this moment of national crisis? Yes, said some Princeton University students, Denver…

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My Son’s Turning 17 and Here is How Our Talks are Changing

My oldest son will be seventeen this year. He worked hard to purchase a car and with that comes some new-found freedoms. He’s not home as much as he was when he depended on me to drive him around. It’s a given that he won’t be with me on most Friday and Saturday evenings. I’ve been…

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The 8 Reasons I Love Parenting Middle Schoolers

Like many parents, I’d look into the big, round eyes of my young children and dread the days my kids became teenagers. At two months or six years, we think we can protect our children and hold onto their innocence. But the thought of middle school, adolescence, interest in sex, attitudes, pimples, cliques, experimenting, drivers…

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Five Ways Online Learning Will Be Different for My Teens This Fall

I’m just going to come out and say that last spring when COVID-19 hit, I didn’t do my best work as a parent. Yes, I know it was new and unknown and we all felt like we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off while we were actually going nowhere. I’m not…

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Class of 2021 Is Beginning a Senior Year We Never Imagined

Dear High School Senior, Congratulations. And my condolences. This was supposed to be the summer you were courted by college admissions officers who showed you state-of-the-art classrooms and impeccably staged dorm rooms. You were supposed to get irrationally excited about That One School You Loved At First Sight and you were supposed to visit the…

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Remember These 7 Things as Your Young Adults Move Out for Good

She’s off! We’re dragging a U-Haul behind us right now, moving our middle child to Chicago to start her first grown-up job since graduating from college last spring. She’s actually been working from home since early June, remotely from her high school bedroom where she hadn’t spent any significant amount of time in four years.…

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How to Master College Move-In Day When You Only Have 2 Hours

We all know things are a little different this year. College freshmen are going away to an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people in a very unfamiliar time in history. Everything freshmen are doing is new-including move-in Freshman are packing their bags about to embark on the best 4 years of their life, but under new…

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Dear Teachers, Please Know That We See You and We are Sorry

“So their plan is to send half of the students to school on Mondays and Tuesdays, do a deep clean of all the classrooms on Wednesday, and then send the other half of students on Thursdays and Fridays,” my grandpa explained to my sister and me. “Is the school going to bring people in to…

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