Clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour has counseled teens and families for decades. Still, it wasn’t until her oldest daughter applied to college last year that she truly understood how the process ...

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When my kids entered their tweens, I felt the holiday joy swirling down the drain. After spending most of the year in their rooms, I hoped the decorating, baking, and Christmas movie marathons would ...

Dear Kids, Okay, for starters and the record: this promise is a re-gift. This is an example of doing unto others what was done unto you. Specifically, your wonderful grandparents, did this to your dad ...

About 14 years ago, I sat in a church service with my husband and tiny daughter. My mind settled on the family in front of us. Two parents and three teenagers. I have thought about this family so ...

I am one of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of people navigating around your college students as they stumble through the waning days of their fall semester. My husband is one of their professors, and ...

It’s spring of senior year, and your daughter has received great news. “Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that….” She breaks into a huge smile, followed by tears of joy as she learns she ...

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The teenage brain is not just an adult brain with fewer miles on it,” says Frances E. Jensen, a professor of neurology. “It’s a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharp brains ...

Hindsight is 20/20 and it’s easy to look back and think about what, if given the chance, we parents would have done differently. That is generally true of life but never is it more true than in ...