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Like many parents, I pictured my children growing up side by side, playing together, and forming childhood memories as best friends. But then life, as it tends to do, threw a few curveballs my way. My son and daughter were born nine years apart.Throughout my pregnancy with my daughter, I…
My daughter was back in her childhood bedroom, a freshly printed college diploma somewhere in the pile of boxes she brought back from her university. Her time was divided between working retail to have some money coming in and applying for jobs.Our household was all aflutter when the call for…
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…
