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How to Cope With Empty Nest Syndrome

The time after a child leaves home can be difficult for a parent, but given time and motivation, it can also be an opportunity for exciting changes.

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How to Organize Your Empty Nest

Unless they've been there, people don't realize how painful it is when your first (or last or only) child leaves home. This child has been the center of your home and your life for the past 18 years....

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How to Encourage a College Student to Communicate

Out of sight and out of mind may seem to be the attitude your college age son or daughter has. It is important to you and to your offspring student to communicate. Whether your child is a freshman or a...

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How to Prepare for an Empty Nest

It is true that some women have a hard time dealing with an empty nest--especially those who are stay-at-home moms or those who are very close to their children. Try the following steps before your...

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How to Deal With Empty Nest Syndrome as a Single Parent

Eventually your children will grow up and leave home, but that doesn't have to be a source of depression or even sadness. You can celebrate the day your nest empties by embracing life, even if it means...

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How to Adjust to the Empty Nest

Most parents experience an empty nest at some time. Whether your child is going off to college, getting married or just moving out, it may be time to let go. With your child out of the house, you may...

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How to Become a Certified Pet Sitter

Pet-sitting is a lucrative business opportunity for the passionate animal lover or empty-nester with a good head for business. Like any other profession, there are standards and an initial training...

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Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for College Students

Chances are your busy college student isn't thinking too much about Valentine's Day. Even so, parents everywhere will be thinking about their scholarly sweethearts. Give your child a gift for...

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How to Survive Empty Nest Syndrome

Empty nest syndrome begins the moment you realize it's time to say goodbye to your children as children and hello to them as adults. This is a painful process for many parents and it often comes as bit...

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Empty Nest Syndrome & Depression

"Empty nest syndrome" refers to a nexus of psychological issues, primarily depression, affecting parents, but mostly women, when the last child leaves home. The Internet has many hundreds of URLS...

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How to Cope When All Your Children Leave Home

When the last child moves out to attend college or start his new life as an adult, a parent typically experiences several emotions all at once. It's normal to feel sad, lonely, unnecessary or, on the...

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How to Deal With Kids Departing for College

You're proud and excited about your child's new life in college, but you can't help but choke up whenever you think of him leaving. It's natural for parents to struggle when a child leaves home for the...

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How to Let Go of Your Adult Children

Whether your child is leaving for college or he's finally moving out at the age of 30, letting go of your child is difficult. Creating some space between you and your child will help him become a more...

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How to Handle an Empty Nest at 40

If your children are grown and living on their own, you might not know what to do with yourself. In fact, you might miss being needed. This is referred to as empty nest syndrome, and it could be...

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How to Deal With Children Leaving the Nest and Let Go

"Empty nest syndrome" is a common experience that many parents encounter once their children leave home, either for college, marriage or employment somewhere else. The transition can be a jarring one....

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How to Rediscover Yourself After Children

Parenthood is a full-time job that can sometimes cause a mother or father's sense of personal identity to crumble. On the Beyond Jane website, motherhood expert Louise Kay says that, "When you become a...

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How to Organize Your Empty Nest

Unless they've been there, people don't realize how painful it is when your first (or last or only) child leaves home. This child has been the center of your home and your life for the past 18 years....

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How to Prepare for an Empty Nest

It is true that some women have a hard time dealing with an empty nest--especially those who are stay-at-home moms or those who are very close to their children. Try the following steps before your...

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How to Cope When All Your Children Leave Home

When the last child moves out to attend college or start his new life as an adult, a parent typically experiences several emotions all at once. It's normal to feel sad, lonely, unnecessary or, on the...

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How to Deal With Empty Nest Syndrome as a Single Parent

Your children have filled your world with activities, but now you're alone as a single parent after they've moved out to attend college or live independently. Empty nest syndrome is the description for...

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