Helping your child pack and subsequently move into college can be a huge ordeal. The whole process is typically very stressful, and that’s coming from the teen perspective. Here are a few tips to make the process run as smoothly as possible:

• Make checklists and keep questions to a minimum. Start a checklist at least a week before your child heads off to college. Many colleges actually provide checklists that you can use as a basic template. This checklist can constantly be edited. You might want to make some additions, but your child can also chose to eliminate items he…
  
  

Remember the days when you stayed in to play a board game. Remember when you were a kid and enjoyed Monopoly and Candyland? Today, society is all about technology moving as fast as the internet. However, in the midst of all of this, I found a way to slow down and stay in. The best part is, it only has two words: Mad Gab.

Mad Gab is actually a card game. There is a set of cards and each card has two sides. One side is orange and one side is blue. According to Mad Gab, the orange side is…

It’s graduation time! What do you get a graduate?

If you simply know a graduate, who you’d like to congratulate with a gift, there’s really only one question you need to keep in mind when getting one: will the graduate definitely be able to use this wherever he or she is headed next? What a graduate really needs (well, everyone needs it) is money. You might feel uncomfortable simply giving money, because it doesn’t come across as a gift that has a lot of thought put into it, but you can rest-assured that this is not what the graduate is…

Empty Nest Syndrome is a layman’s term commonly applied to the feelings of sadness and loss felt by a mother when a grown child leaves home. Often, this emotional reaction occurs in the fall, when newly adult-age children go away to college. It is a common misconception that only mothers are affected by the separation of children from the household. This is possibly because it is primarily women who seek professional help in emotional crisis, so statistical data tend to show Empty Nest Syndrome to be more a mother’s affliction.

Men, however, are not immune to the grief brought on…

Right now, I’m a mess. I have less than twenty days to decide where I want to go to college, and there’s no clear choice. There are two major aspects that are really affecting where my college choices rank among each other: the quality of the education it provides vs. the cost of attendance. I have three vastly different options:

Option A – Go to the state school for free. I’ve earned two scholarships that add up to a full ride, and even a bit of extra spending cash. However, while the state school provides a solid education, it is…