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After high school, my oldest child moved away to attend a four-year university. It was hard to help him move out of our house and into a dorm, and I definitely worried about him from afar. But it was easy to know where the boundaries were when he wasn’t living…
One of my fondest memories of my daughter is going home after a long day of work at my old law firm and seeing her sitting on the steps, anxiously waiting to ask me about my day. She would run toward me, grab my briefcase, and help me into the…
As a Gen X dad, I get along well with my Gen Z daughter, but occasionally we butt heads across the generational divide. While we have a lot of things in common, we also have some different perspectives on life.We communicate differentlyMy daughter is approaching 20 and has been comfortable…
Bill Gates famously dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, but that doesn’t mean he supports the idea of his daughter, Phoebe Gates, not finishing college.On her new podcast, “The Burnouts,” — in which she and her cohost Sophia Kianni discuss the journey of launching their digital fashion startup, Phia…
My daughter is a high school senior and was recently accepted to her dream college. As we celebrate her huge accomplishment and start planning for this exciting change, part of me is more than a little anxious about my first child leaving home.Don’t get me wrong — I fully trust…
I never thought I’d be a mom. Then, at 42 years old, my partner and I were delighted — and shocked — to discover I was pregnant. Now, at 55, I have a 13-year-old daughter. Despite my initial unpreparedness, I’ve realized that becoming a parent later in life has made…
I pushed my daughter to set her sites high and apply to a school that was out of her comfort zone. She was accepted to Tulane, but the financial aid package offered was smaller than we had expected.Telling her that she couldn’t go to the dream school that I pushed…
Michael Townsend and his wife had their daughter Georgie when he was 44 and she was 40.He says there are both benefits and challenges to being an older dad.He has less energy than he used to, but the couple is more financially secure than they once were.This as-told-to essay is…
