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Leaving Home

4 Things I Won't Miss When My Kids Leave Home

Melissa T. Shultz | Posted 04.06.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Sandwiches, Growing Up, Laundry, Julia Child, Mary Poppins, Empty Nest, Parenting, Saturday Night Live, Leaving Home, Csi, Science Fiction, Dr. Oz, Fifty News
Melissa T. Shultz

While out for a walk in my neighborhood this week, a mom I know, driving her well-used Suburban, called out to me. She has six children -- the youngest is in middle school, the oldest is several years out of college.

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5 Things You'll Miss About Home When You Leave For College

Cassidy Hopkins | Posted 03.09.2013 | Teen
Read More: Leaving Home, Leaving for College, College Freshmen, Starting College, Teen News
Cassidy Hopkins

If you haven't gone off to college yet and are just itching to leave home... well, I have to tell you, be careful what you wish for. There are a lot of things you might miss.

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To My Daughter Who Is Starting College (In 16 Years)

Amy Wruble | Posted 02.26.2013 | Parents
Read More: Advice Before College, Carriage Before Marriage, College, Madonna, Letter to My Daughter, Toddlers, Leaving Home, Parenting Humor, Moms, Drinking, Advice, Going to College, Parents-Moms, Parents-Toddlers, Parents News
Amy Wruble

To help calm my fears, I've drafted a letter full of sound parental wisdom that I plan to give my daughter when it's time for her to leave the nest.

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How to Be Alone

Vanessa Willoughby | Posted 01.28.2013 | College
Read More: Quarter-Life-Crisis, College Students, College Life, Leaving Home, College News
Vanessa Willoughby

STEP ONE: Remember that an empty house does not make your skin crawl. In fact, it makes you feel finally free.

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Growing Up and Moving Out: My Move from the South to NYC

Lauren Taylor Shute | Posted 12.03.2012 | Women
Read More: Nyc, New York City, Moving to New York City, Mother-Daughter, Publishing, New Yorker, Graduating From College, Moving Out, The South, First Job, Leaving Home, Raleigh, Women News
Lauren Taylor Shute

I sat with my mother on my bed as the movie ended. We pretended that we weren't both heartbroken at the thought of her only daughter moving away from home and simply focused on how great I would look in my new trench coat traipsing around New York City à la Anne Hathaway.

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'Will He Survive On His Own?'

Lisa K. Friedman | Posted 10.21.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Parenting, Empty Nest, Leaving Home, Going to College, Back to School, Empty Nest Syndrome, Adult Children, Separation Anxiety, Empty Nest Parents, Fifty News
Lisa K. Friedman

I was aware that there were vacuous black holes in my son's mental database, holes that I should have filled before he left. But he was done listening. For now.

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Swimming Lessons

Judy Bolton-Fasman | Posted 10.17.2012 | Parents
Read More: College Admissions, Leaving Home, Parenting, The Talmud, Swimming Lessons, Swimming Test, Lessons From the Talmud, Parents News
Judy Bolton-Fasman

In the old-fashion parlance of the Talmud, a father is required to teach his son three things: The Torah, a trade and how to swim.

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College: A Life of In-Betweens

Meghan McCullough | Posted 08.21.2012 | Teen
Read More: Leaving Home, College Life, College Freshmen, Teen News
Meghan McCullough

Freshman year hit me like a freight truck. It was the hardest, scariest, best thing that has ever happened to me, and I wouldn't change one part of it.

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My Daughter and I Set Sail

Lisa Solod | Posted 10.24.2011 | Parents
Read More: Separation Anxiety, Mothers and Daughters, Parenting, Leaving Home, Mother-Daughter Relationships, Going Away to College, Going to College, Parents News
Lisa Solod

My daughter will be fine, I tell myself. She will be fine, she tells herself. And yet the ache of longing for both of us makes us, if only for a moment, wish to stay put in our safe harbor, to stand fast in the life we have made.

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How Do You Treat Empty-Nest Depression?

World of Psychology | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Raising Children, Depression, Leaving Home, Parenting, Children, College, Empty Nest Syndrome, Healthy Living News

Several mom friends of mine have lately come down with a bad case of "empty-nest depression" -- moms who just dropped off their youngest offspring to ...

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One Less Egg to Fry

One For The Table | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: College Students, Leaving Home, Empty Nest Syndrome, Healthy Living News
One For The Table

I had a rare glimpse into the gaping maw of my Empty Nest Future and lemme tell ya, it was bleak. I won't mince words. I walked around the house weeping.

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34 Years

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Cuba, Living Alone, Raul Castro, Leaving Home, Subsidies, Independence, Fidel Castro, Soviet Union, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Since I left home in Cuba, I have learned to value autonomy, to distrust the subsidies and all these "gifts" that they constantly throw in the faces of citizens.

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Home Before Dark

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Raising Children, Leaving Home, Children, Empty Nest Syndrome, Healthy Living News
Stephanie Gertler

Our youngest has found an apartment with two college friends. I questioned why I was not suffering the empty nest syndrome as others do.

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