Dear Adina, What if your student wants to take web-based classes when in-person classes with a live professor are available and the parent would rather that they attend live, in-person classes? Dear Parent, This topic is deep and complicated, and warrants a conversation with your student that begins with your […]
Read More Dear Adina, We need professional advice on how to get our sons back to college. They started, and then 2020 happened, and gap semesters and mental health, and now? We cannot get them focused on going back to finish the degrees (one is two-thirds through and the other less than […]
Read More Hi, Adina! My daughter graduated in December 2023. She’s unsure what to do for a job, and she might return to get her master's. Do you have any advice I could give her to help her make decisions? Thank you! Dear Parent, My mom tells me that lots of parents […]
Read More Dear Adina, My daughter is 16 and went from a normal high school situation with many friends to a collegiate high school where friends became null and void (mostly because the kids are so focused on the books and not the type to go to the mall on weekends). While […]
Read More Dear Adina, Now that the kids have left the nest, I’m struggling to find a groove of couplehood after spending 25 years in the parent-first role. Any advice on how to rediscover Me as an individual and also Us as a couple? Dear Empty Nester, You are asking the absolute […]
Read More Dear Adina, My college athlete is injured and her coach does not understand the seriousness of the injury and is angry at her and basically calling her a wimp. She (the coach) won’t look at her or talk to her. I want to clarify the extent of injury to the […]
Read More Dear Adina, My daughter struggled with an eating disorder during Covid and has now gone very far away to university where she knew only a few people. I know that she is asking advice from my ex-husband’s girlfriend as she sees her as a friend. I am very hurt that […]
Read More Dear Adina, My youngest son is the only one left living at home and it's hard not to over-focus on him. Any tips on how not to do this? Dear Parent, Well, he’s not the ONLY one left living at home, but he is the only youngster and you are […]
Read More Hi Adina! My daughter started freshman year with quite a few friends. She is starting her junior year and has literally outgrown all of her friends. This so-called friends group started with a mixed group of friends and due to no fault of my daughter’s, she has lost them all. […]
Read More Dear Adina, How do you guide your young adult to balance their intellectual passion and the desire that they shouldn’t struggle to be able to pay the bills? Dear Parent, I have been writing and rewriting an answer to your question for weeks. Why am I stumbling? Simple as your […]
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