Parenting

Yes, we’re all excited to flip the page on 2020. It obviously wasn’t a good year for our country or our planet. As we look forward to what will surely…

Pride and angst, very likely more angst than pride this year as families drop off their budding freshmen for a definitively non-traditional college experience. How many FaceBook posts have you…

When our world changes quickly and suddenly, because of things like COVID-19, it is common to experience changes in our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Feelings of anxiety, fear or worry…

I’m updating one of my most popular columns. It’s about the challenges of dealing with your children when they return home from college for Thanksgiving. College students are about to…

I get it, I’m a few years past sending my kids off to college. But, have things really changed that much? It seems so when I hear stories about what…

Navigating your way through the Thanksgiving break… College students are homeward-bound. For many freshmen it will be their first visit back since packing up last August. Thanksgiving, the uber-American family…

A standard dorm room. Photo by Alec Sitton T-minus one month and counting. The countdown to your first day as a college freshman has officially begun. There are advice articles…

Parents and prospective students talk with Fayetteville State officials. Photo by Ezekiel Best, FSU Used to be that parents packed up the station wagon, drove their son or daughter to…

What should you do with your “boomerang kids” who come home from college for a place to stay over the summer? A first piece of advice is for everyone –…

I always believed that Hallmark was responsible for creating June’s catchy marketing moniker “Dads and Grads.” Just as Father’s Day gifts have thankfully moved beyond standard-issue ties, so too, can…