I'm mentally preparing for my college freshman to move back home this summer. This phase of parenting is harder than I thought.

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My mother enrolled in college at 42 while raising 4 kids. It was the same year I enrolled as a freshman.

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The author, right, and her mother, left, both went to college the same year.

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I'm entering my last year of college. Here's what I wish I knew as an incoming freshman.

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College students moving in.

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