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How To Drop Your Child Off At College (Without Losing Your Mind)

Dropping your child off at college is one of the biggest milestones of your child’s life and a parent’s day of reckoning – having to let your child go. It’s a day filled with great anticipation, emotion, mixed feelings, and, of course, stress. And it’s your job to make sure it goes smoothly. The key […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Lists, Parenting, Popular Posts Tagged With: college, college drop off, dorms, roommates

The Best College Guides For Parents And Students

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Whether your child has just entered high school and you are still in that blissful state where college is but a dream, or are currently knee deep in the college process and pulling your hair out (don’t worry, you will survive – I’ve been through this twice), your head is probably swimming with questions and […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest Tagged With: applying to college, college admissions, college freshman, college process, getting into college, ivy league

10 Best Travel Tips: Bathrooms to Speedos. Yes, I went there.

Summer is a very special time in my home now that both kids are in college. For nine months they live across the country and I parent from afar. But summer brings them back to me and for three months I have a full house again, and I’m full swing into mommy-mode, and there is […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Lists, Travel Tagged With: Summer Series, travel, travel tips, traveling with kids

College Moms Share Their Empty Nest Stories – The Good, The Bad, And The Laundry

Not long ago, when I had a freshman in college and a sophomore in high school, the reality of becoming an empty nester was looming. I had no idea what living in an empty nest would be like. After years of stay-at-home-mothering, filled with action-packed days and nights, grocery shopping, school volunteering, chauffeuring, and laundry, […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Parenting Tagged With: college, college 101, college freshman, college tips, empty house full mind, empty nest, high school senior, moms helping other moms, old tweener, when your child leaves for college

6 Things I Would Tell My 20-Year-Old Self

At twenty I was like many kids at that age: A youthful mixture of  bravado and immaturity. Every thing seemed SO important. EVERY decision was larger than life. Yet honestly, I didn’t have a clue who I was. In reality, I was just a girl who would struggle with frizzy hair for almost forty years […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Get Inspired, Lists, Parenting, Popular Posts Tagged With: advice for college kids, advice for teens, college 101, college tips, dating, marriage, twenty years old, what I wish I would have known when I was younger

The 20 Best College Advice Posts: What Every Freshman & Their Parents Should Read Before College

Whether it’s your first child going off to college, or if you’re like us, your last, your head might be swimming with concerns and wondering what it’s really like out there in “college land”. It’s important for parents and their college bound students to be aware so that good choices can be made. No need […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Lists Tagged With: college, college 101, college dorm roommates, college freshman, college tips, Forbes, freshman 15, GalTime, homesick, Huffington Post, making friends in college, New York Times, peer pressure

Having “The Talk” Before Your Child Leaves For College

Lots to talk about before Mini-Me leaves for college. Even though she’s heard the speech, I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I didn’t say it, yet again. I cringe as the words come out of my mouth, knowing what’s coming, “Mom, you don’t have to tell me this. I’m not stupid.” But, […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Parenting Tagged With: college, college 101, college advice, college freshman, college roommates, college tips, freshman, Skype, TiVo

Shopping for College & Getting Ready For Move In Day

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Congratulations, your child is going to college! Now you must face the task of shopping for the dorm room. It is a special time for parents and their college bound kids and a wonderful opportunity for more bonding as they’re headed out the door. Some kids will be excited to shop for their new digs, […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Parenting Tagged With: college, college 101, college freshman, college tips, dorm, freshman, pottery barn dorm, teens, the container store

Hurray, You’re Now An Empty Nester

The days are warm, long and sultry, and my schedule is definitely looser, but that doesn’t mean life is without stress. For the first time in two years, both kids are living at home for the summer and while there are sweet moments of bliss having all the beds filled, it isn’t without turmoil and […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Midlife musings, Parenting Tagged With: college, college 101, college tips, empty nest, empty nester, Mega Million Lotto winner

Just When You Get Used To The Empty Nest, They Come Home To Visit

watching tv with my family

Family time, especially mealtime, has always been precious to us, but even more so now that College-Boy and Mini-Me are pursuing higher education thousands of miles away and we are feathering our empty nest. Catching a glimpse of their smiling face is no longer something we can do by simply walking down the hall or […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Parenting Tagged With: chick flick, college, empty nest, family time, teens, TV, watching tv with my kids

Tips for when your college kid comes home for the holidays

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Thanksgiving, Christmas, Spring, and Summer break are when many parents of college age offspring, look forward to their student coming home with hope, excitement and a little trepidation. You hope you don’t say too much, ask too much, or commit the worse crime of all, give unsolicited advice. It is such a strange and awkward […]

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