I took my 3 kids to India to relive my study-abroad days. Traveling in my 40s is a whole new kind of magic.

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Family posing in front of the Taj Mahal in India.
Wendy Altschuler visited the Taj Mahal when she traveled back to India with her husband and three kids.

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I've made a conscious decision not to be a helicopter parent. My oldest child was walking alone to the library by the time he was in 1st grade.

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A teenager walking through an airport terminal with his luggage.
Jen Komaromi's son traveled alone from California to France — and changed plans in Paris — at 15.

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My helicopter parents forged job applications for me as a teen. I almost made the same mistake with my own child.

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A young female cafe worker indoors cleans the coffee espresso machines machine with a cloth
A young employee cleans the espresso machine in her cafe.

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How the youngest volunteer at a Gaza hospital spends his days

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13-year-old Yazan Fasfous works side-by-side with his mother at European Gaza Hospital as bombs rain down in the Israel-Hamas war.

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