Lisa Endlich's Blog, page 97
July 12, 2022
Knowing My Sons a Little Less
So this is it — the third and final time. Next week I will sit through my youngest son’s high school graduation. Like every parent in that audience, high school auditorium, and football field, I will burst with pride and a touch of sadness. We will have weeks and months before he leaves, but experience…
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July 11, 2022
My Daughter’s Messy Room Drove Me Crazy, Now I Miss It
Our teens are back in their rooms and I am prepping dinner in the kitchen when my husband comes home from work. I gesture to the kitchen bar. It is covered with our daughter’s stuff—hairbands, bobby pins, ear buds, iPod shuffle, textbooks, notebooks, binders, laptop, journal and the current book she is reading. Her messes…
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July 10, 2022
‘The Price You Pay for College:’ 21 Important Questions to Ask About Colleges
I’m curious for a living, and when I began work on The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make, I turned my inquisitiveness on higher education. I wasn’t just curious on my behalf. I also wanted to know what others were wondering.…
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July 9, 2022
Amazon Prime Day 2022: College, High School and Home Deals (UPDATE)
Amazon Prime Day begins July 12 and continues until the 13th. Below are the EARLY deals we found for you! It’s a great time to buy things you’ve had your eye on for yourself and to pick up some of the basics or extras for your college student’s dorm or apt. We will add to…
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Amazon Prime Day 2022: College, High School and Home Deals
Amazon Prime Day begins July 12 and continues until the 13th. Below are the EARLY deals we found for you! It’s a great time to buy things you’ve had your eye on for yourself and to pick up some of the basics or extras for your college student’s dorm or apt. We will add to…
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Wimpy Mom’s Guide to Letting Go of College Bound Children
“I have berated myself for being a wimpy mom, the parent who cannot walk away without tears, the mother who misses her kids every day. I have given myself the stern talk about being overly attached to my sons and told myself a hundred times that it is not about me but about them. I…
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July 7, 2022
College Counselor: This Matters More Than Anything Else
If there is anything I could tell the parents of teenagers right now, it would be this: It doesn’t matter. I am a mom of four, a college counselor for high school students, and a journalist who has covered college admissions and parenting topics for almost a decade, and I am here to tell you…
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How My Daughter and I Stay Close Though We are Miles Apart
On Monday nights, I have a standing date with my daughter. That’s when the popular podcast Crime Junkie drops a new episode about some gruesome murder or troubling missing person case. We listen together, 325 miles apart. Our love affair with Crime Junkie began two years ago when we still resided under the same roof.…
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I Don’t Know Where I’d Be Without Friends Who Also Have Teens
I have a friend from high school who had a child two years before I did. We’d lost touch until I saw her at the grocery store holding a newborn a few years after graduating college. I’d just gotten engaged and couldn’t wait to have kids. She held her swaddled baby because letting him sit…
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July 6, 2022
10 Ways to Thrive as an Introvert in College
Entering college as an introvert can be scary. You may be asking yourself the following questions: How will I make friends? Will I ever find alone time living in the dorms? Will I dislike college because I am constantly surrounded by other students and have to socialize all the time? As a fellow introvert, I…
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