My Kids Are Home From College And I Don’t Want Them To Go Back

There. I said it. And I’m not sorry. I don’t want my kids to go back to college because I love having them around. Although I know that based on most conversations I’ve had with friends and all the parenting articles I’ve read online lately, I’m in what feels like a teeny, tiny minority, but I don’t care.

It’s how I feel. And here’s why…

See, with both of my daughters in college now, winter break means something very different than it did when they were young. It’s not the nine or ten-day bre...