Growing up a latchkey kid meant learning to handle quite a lot of things on your own. Gen X was born between 1965 and 1980, which means this year they'll be turning 45 to 60 years old. As a smaller ...

Life is a journey filled with lessons that shape who we are. Some of the most valuable insights come from experiences passed down through generations. In our modern world, it’s easy to overlook the ...

Modern parenting often prioritizes constant comfort and immediate solutions, but looking back at the "latchkey" generation ...

Many people who become deeply self-aware later in life look back and realize there were certain lessons they wish they had ...

Life lessons can often feel hard-won. You choose what you think is best—or even most exciting—in the moment, only to realize ...

“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...

As a child I dreamed of an adventurous world-career. In grade school, without traveling far away from our then relatively remote Blue Ridge mountains, I somehow imagined in my lifetime becoming a ...

ST. LOUIS — A former inmate is sharing lessons from his own mistakes, hoping to help teenagers go down the right path. Bobby Bostic wants every teenager to hear his story and learn. He just developed ...

Over the last few months, my son, my wife, and I have visited universities across the country to help find the right one for him. And after a long and arduous search, he has finally chosen the one he ...

A few years ago, I asked myself a question: if I could bottle the main lessons that I have learned as a psychotherapist, what would they be? After a lot of contemplation I came up with six fundamental ...

Remember Jo Dee Messina? “Life Is Good” is one of her finest country tunes, and its life lesson is pretty direct: Life is just too short to let negativity get in the way of enjoying it. She’s right, ...