[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 There are many [...]
When I embarked on college orientation for the first time with my daughter, I was clueless and unprepared. No one told me the insider secrets of what to expect as a parent of an incoming college [...]
[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 [...]
For 18 years my son has slept in the bedroom just down the hallway, and tonight is his last night in there before we take him to college. He’s asleep, but I’m sitting here in the hallway outside [...]
College drop-off day is around the corner.
The first time I went through "College D-Day," it was one of the hardest, most dreaded days of parenthood I'd ever experienced.
The memory of that [...]
I'm writing a letter to all those montage commercials where the kid grows up in thirty seconds and the parent is a blubbering mess at the end. This is what my letter would say: "Psst, stop it." [...]
When my daughter entered her senior year of high school a few years ago, I was a complete train wreck. Seriously: I. Was. Not. OK. I couldn’t fathom how the years had slipped away so quickly and [...]
(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 [...]
Confession: I’ve never been much of a “baby person.” In fact, when I was pregnant with my first child 21 years ago, I secretly wished I was pregnant with puppies. Naturally I felt guilty for even [...]