Everyone Needs a Best Friend To Help Them Survive Parenting Teens

I looked at the text from my best friend and immediately started laughing.

“I’m on a college visit and I just want you to know that we are in over our heads. Did you know dorm rooms have granite countertops now?”

She proceeded to tell me that she felt like she was living that nightmare when you show up to school in your underwear and everyone is laughing at you: that she was caught so completely unaware by everything a parent has to do and remember when it comes to helping your kid actually m...