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College Admitted Day Visits and The Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Decision Day is almost here! You and your child are anxiously awaiting an invite to Admitted Students Day. Typically, Admitted Students Day(s) occur in late March and April. Very often, students and parents use Admitted Student Day(s) to evaluate the schools that they for one reason or another did not visit earlier in the process.

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Great Graduation Gift Ideas for Class of 2020 High School Seniors

We were stumped for ideas for graduation gifts and reached out to our band of experienced parents for some wonderful suggestions to create this graduation gift guide. The number one graduation gift is money. As a nation we will give about $5.5 billion in graduation gifts and 53% of this will be in cash. But

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21 Perfect High School Graduation Gifts for Girls 2020

Its graduation season and, since there is no way to stop the clock from ticking toward the big day, we are here to provide you with a little diversion our high school graduation gifts for girls. With a mix of both traditional and trendy, we hope you will find inspiration. Here are some graduation

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This Can Be Our Finest Hour-But We Need All Of You

For the vast majority of people nationwide and worldwide, this virus is not about you. This is one of those times in life, in history, when your actions are about something bigger. They are about someone else. They are about something greater, a greater good that you may not ever witness. A person you will

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That One Kid Who’s Been Pulling Away His Whole Life

That one kid. The one whos been pulling away his entire life. The one who blended in with the rest of the family at first but then subtly, in small but unmistakable ways, began distancing himself until he was fully in his own orbit, still revolving around us but always looking outward toward more interesting

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How To Worry Like A Mom And Still Keep Living Your Life

We are moms, and we are worried. The coronavirus has seen to that. If worry is the love language of motherhood, were speaking it more fluently than wed like to these days. We are worried about our kids We are worried about the virus. We are worried about our kids getting it, or our parents.

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What To Do If Coronavirus Cancels Your Trip to Visit Colleges

For high school juniors and their families, spring break can be a key time for visiting prospective colleges. Theyve mapped out the trip and narrowed down the list to the colleges they are really interested in. Plane tickets are purchased, college tours are booked. Four ways to learn about colleges without visiting them This year,

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Raising Independent Teens: What We DON’T Do Is as Important as What We DO

A couple of months ago we got one of the many calls no parent of an out of state college kid wants to get: our daughter needed to go to the emergency room. Earlier in the evening a chronic condition shes been battling for over a year had reared its ugly head. The on-call nurse

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Blended Family: Five Important Tips For Step-Parents

If you were to have looked up my name and number in my youngest step-daughters cell phone, you wouldnt have found it. Why? Because she had my number filed under [Expletive-y] Step-Mom. Who caught a photo of me cooking with a scowl that brought out all my wrinkles (and posted it on Instagram, of course)?

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If Colleges Tell Kids Not to Return After Spring Break, Here Are Some Things to Remember [Updated List of Colleges]

Colleges are struggling with how to cope with the outbreak of Covid-19. Its a tricky balancing act to continue educating our kids while keeping them and the whole community safe. Today, Princeton became one of the first universities to encourage students not to return after Spring Break. President Eisgruber told the Princeton community that in

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