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What College Students Want Parents to Know About Drop Off

Dropping off your student at college can be a stressful time for many parents. It’s hard to know what your student wants. I know that parents struggle to figure out how they can help and be supportive, while also giving their student the space to be independent. Parents can find a balance between helping and…

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A Last Night, A Last Jump: Friends Say Goodbye

I used to make them wear a life jacket to jump. Grayson and Nolan were 8 and 6 respectively. They climbed the dock railing in their matching Lands End bathing suits, saying “Watch, Ma.” Water dripped from every inch of their little bodies, life jackets swallowed their torso and their knobby knees bent to the…

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American Parents: Why Things in Italy are Almost Back to Normal

In late March, I wrote an article for American parents that went viral. Italy was then the Covid-19 hotspot of the world, with cases increasing exponentially every day. In the US, where there were a few cases here and there, I saw my American friends doing exactly what I had done just a few weeks…

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Twilight Zone of Fall Uncertainty: Where We Are Living Right Now

My son, a rising college sophomore, moves into his first apartment this week. During a global pandemic. Early March, COVID rumblings on campus began. Joe had drawn a terribly low housing number and his dreams of living in coveted sophomore housing on West campus were shattered. As a spring admit, he had been at school…

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This “New Normal” Is Bearable Because My Teens are Here With Me

I thought I knew what loneliness was. Then I became a single mom and it brought the feeling of being alone to a whole new level. I’m not saying only single parents are lonely. But I am saying many of us go through life, then hit a road bump and wonder why we thought it…

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“Letting Go” Is Not About Forgetting What Was, It’s About Moving Forward

Another night of little sleep. This time it was my husband’s coughing in the middle of the night that started the downward spiral into the rabbit hole of anxiety. I know it’s his allergies, a postnasal drip, but my mind still plays the game of “what ifs.” What if it’s more than that? I can’t…

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How Your Teens and College Kids Should Care for Their Face Masks

Like it or not, our teens will be required to wear masks for a while and they will taking their masks wherever they go. Given that, we wanted to help them out with some tips for mask handling, care and storage-our aim is to make this as easy as possible for them. These are also good…

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A Letter To My Youngest As He Enters His Last Year Of Middle School

Dear Youngest Child, It hit me the other day as we were driving down the road and I was asking your older sister about driving classes, that you would be right behind her. There has been a long stretch of time when your “firsts” brought me comfort at each of your brother’s and sister’s lasts.…

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How to Find and Land an Internship: Advice From a Rising College Senior

Summer 2020 may have looked a little different for many college students, it certainly did for me. I spent a long 5 months during the school year preparing my resume, editing cover letters and doing endless LinkedIn searches to find the perfect summer internships. I spent long hours at career services at Syracuse University going…

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Financial Health: Is Your Student’s College Going Under?

Parents worry about college. We worry about admissions, paying for college and jobs as our kids graduate. But, until now, worrying that the college your student attends will not be financially solvent and will close before graduation day has not been on the list. Yet even before the pandemic, many colleges were struggling financially and…

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