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The summer going into my senior year of high school, I decided to apply to colleges. And by “I decided,” I mean I waited until the last minute and quickly scrambled together some applications. Whether ...

My kids both played high level competitive sports through their entire youth. My son started at six, playing at least two sports simultaneously all year round. Sometimes three. They often overlapped, ...

When my daughter started her college search, I joked that there were three parts to the college admissions process: the visiting, the applying, and the leaving. We found the first part, the visiting, ...

We are a reader-supported site and receive compensation from purchases made through these links. See more about our Privacy and Affiliate policies here. Teen girls ...

Loneliness is something that a lot of college students struggle with. I think that a lot of people have expectations when arriving at college that it is going to be the best time of their lives and ...

And just like that, she is gone. Oh sure, she had left before, a hundred times. First, to the church nursery, then to summer camp, then on a mission trip to Romania, and then out of state to college, ...

Sometime between when our generation applied to college and now, the admissions process has taken on a Hunger Games-like milieu. Parents began to believe that superior grades, high test scores, and ...

I’ve always thought of myself as a cool-headed mom. You know, the kind of mom every teenager wants to have: chill, spontaneous, with the willingness to have fun. But when my baby, my ...

When teens and young adults picture social settings, most of them envision physical spaces with their peers, online communication, or possibly family gatherings. Most don’t think about the social ...

For the last 20 years, every mid-November, is the time when I begin to think about what Christmas card I’m going to send out. Until this year. This year I questioned whether it made sense. Both my ...