College & Young Adult Articles

It's finally here: graduation. It’s an event you’ve anticipated with joy and dreaded with grief. Fellow parent--you're about to feel all the feelings. Your teen will be feeling them, too. [...]

As the big day approaches and all the final senior year milestones wrap up, graduates need encouragement now more than ever! Let’s celebrate our graduates’ accomplishments, show our pride in [...]

Judging by the store displays spilling into the aisles, back to school season is upon us. And if you're a parent with a soon-to-be college freshman, this back to school season may just be your [...]

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12 Age doesn’t always [...]

She was sitting in front of me at the mandatory annual parent meeting. Her teeth were obviously whitened by a dentist, not a hair out of place, makeup gorgeously applied, and looking like she’d [...]

This morning I was mentally processing my to-do list during my drive to work like always. It included the usual run-down of the day’s meetings and project deadlines, but also much more than what [...]

You’ve been dreaming of this moment since you dropped them off in August—the sweet reunion of your baby returning home from college for Thanksgiving or Christmas break. But before your vision of [...]

I could tell she had been crying the minute I answered the phone. So it was going to be one of those talks. On the other end was my tearful daughter (a college junior), who was having a panic [...]

"She's not having a good day." This was the end of a recent Facebook update on my friend who is in the battle of her life with ovarian cancer. The words sunk like a stone in my heart. It's true [...]

I was at my mailbox last weekend and saw my neighbor, Beth, weeding her garden. As I strolled over to say hello, I noticed she wasn’t just weeding… She was weeping. On her knees. Right there on [...]