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Are you a log in your adult child’s road?

Susan Bonifant writes in The Washington Post's ON PARENTING about the following revelation regarding her involvement in her 21 year old daughter's life: "Now my “helpful” actions were not a comfort but a log to move out of the road." I've always joked that if I were...

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Parents & College Students Part Deux – This will make you laugh if it doesn’t make you cry

Please read and share my previous post since Facebook won't let me "boost" it. This, unfortunately, is not as far-fetched as it seems. But it is funny. from McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Some Notes for My Child’s College Roommate BY JULIE VICK - - - - Go ahead and...

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College – A challenge for parents as well as students

I've sent two sons to college. It was exciting, scary, lonely...and that was just for me! Have questions for NeedAMom about college? Ask 'em here.   There's a lot of advice out there for parents of college students but this article by Professor David S. Dunn in...

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