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What It’s Like to Be a Middle-Aged College Student

By Michele Willens — 2013

Forty years after I left school, I’m going back.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Luke’s Best Chance: One Man’s Fight for His Autistic Son

More than a million children in America are the autism spectrum. What happens when they come of age?

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Paul Solotaroff
2016
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What to Do if Your College Kid's Grades Are Slipping

The transition from high school to college is not always an easy one.

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Sherri Gordon
2021
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How Parents Can Ward Against “Imposter Syndrome”

Today in my interactions with college students and young scientists in training, I’m often struck by the limits that they are placing on their own potential by comparing their achievements to those of others.

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Tricia Serio
2016
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What Parents Need to Know about College Students and Depression

As college students returned or entered college this fall, the important issue of anxiety and depression is a discussion that parents, college students and professionals who work with students do not want to forget.

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Mayo Clinic Health System staff
2021
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How to Help a Perfectionist Student

Starting university is often a stressful time and can lead to perfectionist tendancies. If you’re a worried parent, here’s how you can help.

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Tamsin Rutter
2015
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The Double Culture Shock of Becoming a Mom While Living Abroad

You’ve probably heard of culture shock, the feeling of disorientation a person feels when faced with another culture, way of life, or set of attitudes. For me, it was twofold: I was in a new country and I was a new mom, two ways in which my own life suddenly felt utterly unfamiliar.

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Olga Mecking
2017
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How Cultures Around the World Think About Parenting

What can American parents learn from how other cultures look at parenting? A look at child-rearing ideas in Japan, Norway, Spain—and beyond

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Amy S. Choi
2014
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Parenting a Third Culture Kid

Third Culture Kids (TCKs): Children who don’t identify with a single culture, but have a more complicated identity forged from their experiences as global citizens.

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Elke Robshaw
2015
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An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson

Our new Learning sections will feature a question-and-answer segment with an education expert. For our first installment, we’ve chosen Sir Ken Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education.

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Kenneth Robinson
2018
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How Much Homework Is Enough? Depends Who You Ask

In the stereotypical classroom, the teacher spends time in class presenting material to the students. Their homework consists of assignments based on that material.

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Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
2018
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Cross-Cultural Dynamics