As a therapist, I know that teens' pulling away is developmentally healthy. But it still hurts to feel you're getting the ...

Thirteen things that helped one mom through college drop-off: one of the biggest transitions and milestones of motherhood.

I was looking forward to this trip so much because I wanted for us all to be together for a few days, something that rarely happens at home.

Here's a 24–48 hour prep checklist for college students living in dorms or off‑campus to help them stay safe during the ...

I’m trying to remember how we marked the occasion of my high school graduation, and I can’t. Maybe it’s because there wasn’t a big, overblown celebration, but more realistically, it was over 30 years ...

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This morning I realized we had reached the beginning of the end. While I knew this moment was coming, it came sooner than expected, and I was unprepared for it. It happened suddenly at 6:30 a.m. on ...

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Caring for kids during their tween and teen years can feel like riding a rollercoaster with no seat belt and a blindfold, never sure when the ride is going to dip or climb. While adolescents get a ...

One thing I’ve realized as a mother to teens is that, back in our younger days, talking about some of the problems or hard times you experienced while you were a mother to younger kids, was a bonding ...

Lisa (Endlich) Heffernan is the co-founder of Grown and Flown, the #1 site for parents of teens, college students and young adults, reaching millions of parents every month. Lisa is a New York Times ...

As with any number of things that captivate our teens’ attention, we parents can tend to laser focus in on the negative – perhaps due to a single story we hear on the news – and then quickly ...