Family

It’s so easy to believe lies. My 20-year-old daughter has been going through a rough time in college lately. She’s smart, she’s strong, and, as a scientist, she prides herself on filtering out [...]

It’s so easy to believe lies. My 20-year-old daughter has been going through a rough time in college lately. She’s smart, she’s strong, and, as a scientist, she prides herself on filtering out [...]

There’s probably a mathematical formula for determining how much more expensive our kids get as they get older. I’m no accountant, but it feels like I’ve added another zero to my kids’ annual [...]

It’s different for every parent, but at some point we all have to let our kids make their own decisions. College is perhaps the most significant time when this happens.

I'm not good with goodbyes. When I dropped my daughter off at college during August of her freshman year, I thought my heart would never recover from the loss of her presence in my daily life. [...]

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 holiday breaks. But before your vision of a fairy tale [...]

  Finding gratitude in the midst of crunch time You may not quite be feeling it yet, but November is crunch time. As the days go by, the pile of activities, deadlines, and stressors gets [...]

[This article by Kami Gilmour is an excerpt from a chapter in her best-selling devotional book, Release My Grip: Hope for a Parent's Heart as Kids Leave the Nest and Learn to Fly. Give Me the [...]

Every Mother's Day I think back to when I was a little girl and my fantasy image of my future life as a grown-up. It looked a lot like my parents' life: happily married for decades with a house [...]

(photo credit: Lee De Monico for WestportNow.com) If you're like me, you've never paid much attention to "graduation season hoopla" until you realized this is the year that will adorn your [...]