Let people see you. Feel deeply. Speak your truth with courage, even if your voice shakes. You can’t let the light in without ...

across the aisle from me, because in his quest to find the right tool to adjust to a new chapter in life, I saw the familiar angst of parental transitions. Father wants to send his soon-to-be-freshman ...

My son got his first job when he was thirteen. He’d spend the summer working in hayfields doing hard labor in the sun. He loved making money, but more than that, he loved working with his body and ...

Ellen Giordano Austin is a freelance writer, based in Memphis, Tennessee. She and her husband have two grown-and-flown daughters. She enjoys solving jigsaw and crossword puzzles, biking, and playing ...

Kristen Downs is a blogger at Adventures in Motherhood, a violinist, a runner, and a community activist. A former CIA agent, commercial banker, and non-profit director, Kristen has emerged as a Jane ...

During my son’s years as an elementary school student and most of the middle school, I liked his friends a lot. He surrounded himself with sweet, curious, thoughtful kids who made good choices. Of ...

My husband and I have been empty nesters for almost a year now. While it certainly took us a while to get used to the deafening silence, and the aches in our hearts, we adjusted rather quickly to the ...

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 ...

August feels like yesterday and also a million miles away. High hopes, big dreams, and a picturesque vision of college life. And then the reality sets in. It was different than you or your student ...

One thing I’ve realized as a mother to teens is that, back in our younger days, talking about some of the problems or hard times you experienced while you were a mother to younger kids, was a bonding ...

Little kids are notorious for unknowingly saying funny things, but sometimes, our big kids can be pretty hilarious too. We recently shared a tweet by @Parkerlawyer that said, “My daughter in college ...