Author and mom Christina Geist (Before You Fly Away: Life Lessons From Home) has advice for college drop off, especially for first time college parents.

Three years after her son's leukemia remission, mother and psychotherapist reflects on fear, survival, and the bittersweet ...

Parenting teens can feel like raising strangers. Mom of 5 shares her "Alien Theory" and why a teen's distance is a normal ...

The first time my daughter drifted toward the center line, I grabbed the wheel. It was a reflex. Two months into teaching her to drive, on a quiet road I’d picked precisely because nothing ever ...

It was 11:14 on a Tuesday night when my phone lit up with a text from my son, “hey.” That was it. One lowercase word. No punctuation. No explanation. The one word text tipped mom off to a problem.

She got the sweatshirt in April. The right one — the school at the top of the list, the one the family had visited twice, the one whose name produced a nod at dinner parties that required no follow-up ...

So many excited grandparents, looking forward to their own child having a child, wonder how they can best help once the new baby arrives. We don’t want to do too much and new families need quiet time ...

On an ordinary Monday evening this past June, after hanging my new bird feeder and chatting with me over dinner about nothing in particular, my husband died suddenly. We had been empty nesters for ...

A while back, I wrote about the trials and tribulations of being the mother of four boys and how I heard that there was a special place in heaven for such mothers. At that particular time in my life, ...

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 ...

It was just a few weeks into the school year. He had already had his last first football practice, his last first game, the senior breakfast, and the senior drape pictures. All the milestones were ...