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Coping with the empty(ing) nest: Invest in your work
Image: Some rights reserved by San José Library By Chris Little In my last two posts I wrote about adapting to the empty(ing) nest—how do you manage the transition from being a mother with kids at home...
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Coping with the empty(ing) nest: Step into your dreams!
Image: Some rights reserved by Grand Canyon NPS by Chris Little In my last few posts I’ve been exploring adapting to the empty(ing) nest, that dicey time when you’re transitioning from being a mother...
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Home is Not a Place: Strategies for Staying in Touch with Your College Student
By Chris Little Sleepaway camp. College. Junior year abroad. A post-graduate fellowship in Europe. A job transfer to another coast. As our kids grow up, they increasingly will find themselves...
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The Reluctant Fledgling: Encouraging your child when she’s anxious about...
By Chris Little You know the classic scenario: Mom, once eager for reluctant Junior to start grade school, ruefully sees the roles reverse when it’s time for Junior to leave for college. Of course,...
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Coping with the Emptying Nest: Easy Does It
By Chris Little If you’ve got fledglings on their way out of the nest, I know you’ve also got images of them as toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners dancing around in your head. “How fast the...
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Left Behind: How to help younger sibs adjust when a big brother or sister...
By Chris Little Until now I’ve been focusing on how the emptying nest feels to the parents (okay, mostly the mothers) left behind. But I’d like to spend some time thinking about how it might feel to...
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Real Estate Negotiations: What to do with your child’s room (and her stuff)...
By Chris Little If you’ve got a new college kid, by now she’s off at school. You’re likely adjusting to the quiet, doing a little less cooking and laundry—and walking past her empty room a couple...
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Updates from the Emptying Nest: Getting Ready for Fall Break and Thanksgiving...
By Chris Little This morning it’s just 23 days until my beloved first-born, now a bona-fide college freshman, comes home for his first Fall Break. And after that, just a month or so until Thanksgiving....
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Waiting for Wisdom
Image courtesy: MetroParent By Chris Little One of the things I’m learning about having a college student for a kid: My role as his parent demands quite new behaviors from me. When something happens to...
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You’d Better Watch Out, You’d Better Not Cry, Your College Kid is Coming...
Tomorrow I’ll head out to pick up my freshman for winter break. On the one hand of course I’ll be thrilled to have him home for almost a month. On the other hand I confess I’m a little apprehensive:...
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