From a former college president: In the vast majority of instances, it’s best to give your student space to solve their own problems.

We just dropped our oldest off for freshman year of college. I am so sad. People are trying to help, I'm not ready to hear that I'll be okay.

I have five kids out there that I think of every minute of the day and hope that they are living the life they want and are happy.

You might think that since I’m a dean of admissions at a university, that my kids’ experience of applying to college would have been friction free. No. Teenage development includes a predictable ...

We decided to set a one-call-per-week policy when our eldest went off to college and here’s what happened.

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Do your young adult kids have the knowledge and experience to be a good wedding guest? Here are six important tips for them.

I found my people in college, but everything has changed. The campuses we visited were quiet. Students were plugged in to their phones.

My daughter had two big decisions to make during her senior year and she agonized over both. (Shutterstock fizkes) ...

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 ...

Suddenly they are 18 and ready to be independent? Overnight, my babies were no longer deemed children, but they didn’t have the experience they needed to handle life’s challenges. That might be my ...