The celebration had created a contract: this is where you wanted to be, this is where you are, the story is finished. The ...

Junior year is when college admissions begins to feel real. To help families focus on what truly matters, we gathered guidance from nationally recognized admissions experts on everything from building ...

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Worried about paying for college? You’re not alone. College expenses continue to rise and the process of finding affordable colleges and applying for financial aid is complex. Families need clear ...

“I just want to go over a couple papers before we leave,” I said, hastily pulling out a couple items from my purse, my eyes squinting in the afternoon sun. “This is the one that’s most important—the ...

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. But this one? It holds a lifetime. It was taken on the day my son got married. He’s in a black tux. I’m in a dress I spent weeks choosing. We’re standing ...

Hearing those words from my son, a high school senior, was very jarring. He told me about a conversation with a friend’s moms. His friend’s younger brother was struggling with many of the same things ...

As parents of teens and young adults, we’ve witnessed countless trends come and go. But the latest phenomenon sweeping through college campuses and high schools is something we never expected: ...

Grown and Flown was where I first saw the advice about how often to communicate with my college freshman. It was 2018, and we were just about to send the guinea pig off to a university three hours ...

I arrived at my house from the funeral home and went straight to bed. I’d been awake for nearly 36 hours, the final hours of my mom’s life. While saying my last goodbye, I was told by the hospital ...

My oldest daughter leaves for college this fall. It’s taken me every bit of her 17 years to finally be at peace with being a stay-at-home mom. It’s hard to type those words and even harder to read ...