Spring Break...Yea or Nay?
College undergrads inundate Miami Beach each year for spring break, but this year the city is waving a white flag, crying "Nay, too much...
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Maribeth Harper
- Mar 6, 2019
- 2 min
Lent-PCM Style
How many emails/blogs have you received in the past 10 days encouraging you to live this Lent generously, with discipline, full of...
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Maribeth Harper
- Mar 5, 2019
- 2 min
Do Prayers for My Child Really Make a Difference?
Outside, it's cold and dreary. Inside, my heart feels just like the weather looks this time of year. When my thoughts turn to our two...
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Maribeth Harper
- Feb 5, 2019
- 3 min
Who Doesn't Love a Snow Day?
The University of Notre Dame was one of many colleges that closed its doors recently because of the polar vortex that descended upon the...
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Maribeth Harper
- Feb 5, 2019
- 3 min
Who Doesn't Love a Snow Day?
The University of Notre Dame was one of many colleges that closed its doors recently because of the polar vortex that descended upon the...
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Maribeth Harper
- Jan 7, 2019
- 2 min
A Failsafe GPS for 2019
A college coed I know made her way back to school last week via a detour to the local emergency room. Apparently, this former Irish...
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Maribeth Harper
- Dec 3, 2018
- 3 min
Christmas Mass...Bah, Humbug?!
"Help, my child is home from college and tells me he has stopped going to Mass! What should I do?" This question is the one I get most...
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Maribeth Harper
- Nov 5, 2018
- 2 min
Thanks-giving for Your Turkeys
This little turkey will be joining us for Thanksgiving in a few weeks. Are you ready to welcome your college-aged "turkeys" home for the...
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Maribeth Harper
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
Homesickness...Worrisome or Not?
In the weeks before my son left for college I was ready to say, "Goodbye and good riddance," because he had been so hard to get along...
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Maribeth Harper
- Sep 4, 2018
- 2 min
Are You Weeping?
Late summer signals "back to school" and often leaves me feeling melancholy. How about you? Did you just drop your student off at...
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Maribeth Harper
- Aug 25, 2018
- 2 min
Ready and Waiting for YOU
Are you breathing a sigh of relief having said goodbye your college aged-young adult? Or maybe you're surprised at the sadness you feel...
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Maribeth Harper
- Aug 2, 2018
- 2 min
They're Off...Almost...Now What, Mom?
Such a bittersweet moment! Their bags are packed, the car is gassed, the dorm room awaits, and they're eager to begin (or return to)...
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Maribeth Harper
- Jun 27, 2018
- 2 min
It's All About You
College-aged young adults make their own breakfasts, carry their own chairs to the beach, and put on their own sunscreen. That leaves...
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Maribeth Harper
- Jun 4, 2018
- 3 min
My Way or the Highway!
When I lived at home for the summer as a college student, my dad was an imposing force with which to reckon-- all six and a half feet...
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Maribeth Harper
- May 4, 2018
- 2 min
Moms Graduate Too!
Welcome to May...an absolutely crazy month for most families with children. Squeezed in among spring weddings, first communions,...
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Maribeth Harper
- Apr 2, 2018
- 2 min
Those Were the Days...
Decisions about college were a long way off back when our toddlers rejoiced over a Hershey's kiss and their teddy bear. Yet, here we...
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Maribeth Harper
- Mar 5, 2018
- 2 min
We All Need a Helping Hand Sometimes
When her last son was about to begin his senior year of high school, Laurel Howanitz suddenly became frozen with fear about the looming...
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Maribeth Harper
- Feb 5, 2018
- 3 min
You Brighten My Day!
January, February and March are the most difficult months of the year for someone like me-a lover of sunlight. The days are short, and,...
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Maribeth Harper
- Dec 2, 2017
- 4 min
When College Kids are Naughty, not Nice
The Christmas countdown has begun and I assume that Praying College Moms everywhere anticipate a warm and loving grateful brood of adult...
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Maribeth Harper
- Oct 20, 2017
- 1 min
Because You Asked...
Our effort to help women parent college-aged young adults seems to have raised up a small new "community" of sorts--a virtual one. Some...
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