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23 College Essentials From Walmart Students Swear By

Credit: Walmart

Whether you’re sending your child off to college for the first time or they’re heading back for another year of dorm dwelling, there are college essentials no one wants to forget. From comforters and sheet sets to handy tech, Walmart is one of the best retailers that’s stocked with everything you need to get college-ready. 

In our quest to find the best college essentials at the budget-friendly retailer, we sorted through pages upon pages to find best sellers and highly rat...

My Husband is Ruining My Relationship With My Teens

I’m tired of being the peacekeeper between my husband and my kids.

The relationship between my husband and my kids has been tumultuous for as long as I can remember. He has very high expectations and he is critical of everything they do, overly so. He really doesn’t seem to understand that the parent/child relationship is fragile.

This has been going on for years. My kids have come to me in tears. I’ve navigated conversations and apologies, smoothed over rough waters, forced conversations ...

I Never Imagined I Would Be Doing This Very Hard Part Alone

Lots of deliberation into submitting this article…to share or keep to myself? Will it help me or will it help others? My hope is that it helps us all feel less alone and helps us believe it will get better. We all have our unique struggles and sad stories. Below is mine.

It was going to be hard enough being an empty-nester but truly being alone is really daunting. I never imagined I would be doing this very hard part all alone; sending both kids off to college.

When my kids leave, I will ...

College President: Five Ways Students Can Get the Most Out of College

College is a big investment of both money and time. As a college president and parent of two former and one current college student, here are five things you might encourage your student to do.

Students can do these five things to find success in college. (Twenty20 @jon.sim)Five things students should do to succeed in college1. Be fully engaged in academic courses and the campus community

Students don’t have to be fully formed when they go off to college, but they do have to be ful...

Wanting My Daughter to Conform Took a Toll on Our Relationship

When you have a child, intellectually you know that you can’t predict the path they’ll choose or what it will take for them to get wherever they’re going. But if your teen takes a common path it’s easy to feel like they are making progress toward the goal of making their way in the world. 

My daughter took the road less traveled. When that happens, there’s no play book and there are no other moms to talk to as you wade through the uncertainty of this alternate path. It’s harder to know how th...

100 Essential Life Skills Teens Need to Learn at Home

Do you ever wonder if you’ve taught your teens enough life skills to go out into the real world and succeed? School fills them with facts and numbers, history, math, writing skills, and the sciences. But for a generation brought up on their cell phones, below are some of the essential life skills teenagers and young adults need as they move into adult life.

Have I done enough to prepare my teen for college is something most parents wonder. (@klovestorun via Twenty20)

Here are 1...

I Wish My Teens Had Known the Younger, Adventurous Me, Not Just the Anxious Mom

One of my favorite times of the year is our annual family summer road trip. My husband, an incredible planner, has created itineraries over the years that have brought us to almost every continental state and some amazing places in Canada.

Somewhere, our boys, who are now in their solid teenage prime, have traded in the affinity of hours on their iPads from one destination to another, for hours exploring backroads and hikes in places we never imagined we’d get to.

Their love of adventure ...

I Told My Husband a Dozen Times: ‘No kids, No dogs’

No kids, no dogs.

Years ago, when I met my (now) husband (we were barely 20) and started dating him, we were exploring our compatibility, enjoying one another, and figuring out whether we would be able to make it last as a couple.

We dated almost five years before getting married. Inside those five years, we did the big things- we traveled together, discussed finances (we both had nothing, it was a short conversation), met one another’s family and friends, and talked about the future.

N...

Top 20 Bestselling Dorm Essentials (2024)

There’s a short list of a dozen must-have dorm essentials and then there’s a second tier of things your teen could find very helpful at college. It’s tempting to think there are many more essential purchases that your student absolutely needs but we want to help you think through and source a much shorter list.

We’ve looked at this summer’s sales trends within our Grown and Flown community and curated the following list of 20 essentials. These are the items and brands that many parents are bu...

ACT Will be Shorter and the Science Section will be Optional

The SAT went through some big changes in the past few years, becoming digital, adaptive and shorter and now major changes are coming to the ACT.

Science will no longer be a required part of the ACT, which will be a shorter test. (Shutterstock Ground Picture)The ACT will be shorter

According to a new statement released by the ACT, the test will be changing in two fundamental ways. First, it will be approximately one-third shorter, so that the new core test will run about 2 hours rather ...