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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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’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, ...

After an extended winter break, I said goodbye to my three college-aged sons. I hugged each of them tightly, told them I loved them, and added my usual reminder to “make good decisions.” As a ...

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 ...