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 ...

Like most parents, I text with my teens regularly, and I feel fairly competent: I’m a good communicator, know the lingo, and understand the ins and outs of texting with teens. Or so I thought. Rules ...

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, ...

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A few years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the school’s deans greeted a group of incoming freshmen with this question: “How many of you know exactly what you want to major in here ...

My son is smart, authentic and unusual, but his deepest feelings have been a mystery to me since he became a teen. This makes his senior year and the college search and application process difficult ...

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“But, mom!” the living-back-at-home daughter protested. “You have to TELL me these things.” Hindsight is 2020 when we think about what we should have told our kids before they left home. (Albina ...

I recently saw a post on Instagram that said, “I was so wrapped in the responsibilities of motherhood, that I almost forgot this was my first time experiencing motherhood in my 40s too.” Often our ...

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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