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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 ...

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, ...

I’m writing this after a failed attempt at a holiday family vacation with my three children, 10 years after my divorce, while sipping tequila on the rocks, bingeing the fifth season of Emily in Paris, ...

College students who live in dorms on in off-campus apartments need to be prepared with the upcoming major winter storm that’s expected to impact much of the country. Students need to prepare for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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’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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