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7 Tools a Single Mom can use for Managing Home and School
This is a guest post by Carrie Mcpherson. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. Managing the household and keeping up with the everyday demands of life is not easy, especially for a single Mom. It seems like there is always something on Mom’s to do list and since I started [...]
Tips for a College Student Dealing with Anxiety
This is a guest post by Ryan Rivera. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. Parents tend to struggle the most when it comes to a child leaving for college. You raised your child for roughly 18 years, from the day they were born until they graduated from high school, and [...]
31 Practical Parenting Tips for Single Mothers
This is a guest post by Marina Chernyak. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. Many people in this world believe that single mothers cannot raise a child adequately on their own. There are stories that single mothers raise their sons to be effeminate and hate their daughters. However, over time, [...]
Separation Anxiety – How are you dealing with your child away at college?
Over a year ago, our daughter left for college as a freshman. As parents we certainly felt the pangs of separation anxiety in the days, weeks, and months that followed that dramatic day of drop-off. She was about to experience a new adventure in her life and we, as parents, were about to do the [...]
5 Steps to Prepare you for the Empty Nest
My wife and I are heading for the time in our lives when the kids are gone. You know, that time so aptly called the Empty Nest. Our eldest headed off to college last year at this time and our youngest has three more years of high school. We know how quickly those three years [...]
How Your College Student Wants You to Behave
This is a guest post by my daughter, Lianna Bessette. If you want to guest post on this blog, click here to get more information. DISCLAIMER: Although I am in college, I do not necessarily hold the same views as all college students. I cannot be held responsible for any variations in opinion among others [...]
5 Parental Tips for Dealing with College Separation Anxiety.
So you’ve just dropped off your child at college for the first time and are feeling the pain. That final hug was a lot more difficult than you had originally expected. Your first-born is now among people you do not know, in a completely foreign environment, and you feel the anxiety and feel helpless as [...]
How to get your child into their “first choice” college.
If you’ve followed this blog you know that we had to drop our eldest daughter off at college back in August for the first time. It was extremely tough for us as parents. Looking back at the whole college search process, for us it was a resounding success! You will miss them dearly, but my [...]
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