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I’m Measuring Our Hope for College by the Number of Boxes at Our Front Door

When there were no packages on my stoop yesterday, I started to worry. Since we have been staying at home with school closed for over 10 weeks, I have been measuring our level of hope for college to reopen in the fall by the number of boxes that get delivered to our house each day.…

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Teen Boys Bouncing Off the Walls and Struggling? How I’m Handling It

OK, so I wouldn’t say that I’m handling it well exactly.  The truth is, I’m not handling anything well at all at this point, because after several weeks of sheltering in place (and more ahead still full of uncertainty), adding testosterone laden energy, smells, sights, and sounds to a house we have all barely left…

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Author Gail Sheehy Asks: Will Skipping the Life Passage of Graduation Derail the Future of Gen Z?

Graduating from high school or college awakens young people the excitement – and the anxiety – of moving through one of the major “passages” of life. President Obama acknowledged my concept in his commencement speech, describing the “passage to adulthood.” Graduation is merely symbolic of the longer transition where young people leave behind most of the restrictions of…

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We Didn’t Ask for This But Maybe it Was What My Family Needed

It’s week nine…or is it the end of week eight? Do I count the week I went into the office for one day? When did I start keeping track? No matter, we’re deep into it now, nine (or eight or ten) weeks from the time we walked into our house and more or less stayed…

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4 Crucial Additions to the College Dorm List

College freshmen are finalizing plans for school and, no doubt, their university has provided them with a long list of necessary items – immunization forms, financial information, and registration instructions. In our household, my wife and teen have downloaded the college dorm checklist and headed off to Bed Bath and Beyond to get the requisite…

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A Photo Shoot That Spans Decades In Honor of Graduating Seniors

Here at Grown and Flown we are forever astounded by the creativity of our moms and dad and the post Michelle Corales-Geiger put up of her son in our parents group blew us away. Although her son Neo is a junior, Michelle tells us that the photo shoot was done in honor of the graduating…

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10 Commandments of Dorm Shopping

Outfitting a dorm room might be just one more shopping trip if it weren’t so imbued with expense, confusion and nostalgia. It is so easy to get so much wrong and wind up having wasted both time and money. We gathered our cadre of experienced moms and offer up these 10 Commandments, okay “guidelines,” to…

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Favorite College Dorm Room Ideas for 2020 – 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 my dorm room 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 like a…

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What Helped This Mom Learn to LOVE Fortnite

“How long have you been playing today? Have you been outside? Did you take a break?” Those were the questions I would launch at my then-6th grader when he first started playing Fortnite two years ago. “No, you may not spend real money on skins. Your skin looks just fine to me! You need a…

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Here’s Why I Would Give Anything for Long, Boring Speeches Right Now

About two weeks ago, the sports boosters club at my son’s high school started posting senior tributes. Every morning, I go to the club’s Facebook page and I click like for every single profile. I don’t know the tennis player with a big serve. Nor do I know the cheerleader who can do back flips…

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