Family Weekend: How to Bring Your Lofty Expectations Down to Earth

You dropped junior off at college about six weeks ago. Separating from him was challenging but on the trip home you soothed yourself with the thought that you’d be returning to campus to see him in a month or two for Parents’ Weekend or Family Weekend or whatever your school chooses to call it.

You get home and there’s a hollow kind of emptiness in your house and in your heart. You struggle with the new normal but little by little you begin to master it or even delight in some aspects of it....