Graduation

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

[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 [...]

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

  Let’s Stop Seeing Age 18 as the Parenting Finish Line, Mmm K? When I was an eighteen-year-old college freshmen, during spring break my friends and I (all females) hitchhiked from a grimy [...]

(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 [...]