When children leave the house for college or other opportunities, the sudden change and loss of predictability can be disruptive for working parents and their careers. It’s common for parents to feel grief when kids leave the house. Perhaps you’ve been caught unaware: you haven’t fully anticipated this time and season, and now your life looks like a blank canvas. How do you fill it? If you’re an empty nester (or will be soon), this article offers some questions for you to reflect on and strategies help you re-shape your life and find meaning — both personally and professionally — during this time.

Managers have an opportunity to help expectant mothers even before employees go on parental leave, Babson Professor Danna Greenberg said.

There are lots of reasons women should feel hopeful about having a career and children.

And start raising kind ones.

It’s time to shift the paradigm about sensitivity in boys and recognize how it improves their relationships and supports their well-being.

Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns says she balanced work and family by "outsourcing the caring for my kids." Here's what that means, and how it panned out for her.

I basically have zero expectations when it comes to grades and standardized tests. It’s a time of leveling up life skills and identifying self-directed passions.

Adam Grant

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At a time when issues of sexual harassment and consent are in the news, and with the holidays just around the corner, the Girl Scouts have resurfaced a recommendation about how parents can help young girls handle affection.

It’s the quality of time parents spend with their children, not the quantity.

Sonia Bokhari

Playtime, downtime and family time are so essential to a child's healthy development. But with competing demands from school, extracurricular activities and anxiety, getting downtime might be hard to come by.

Stretched for time, some households are starting to operate more like businesses.

If mothers and fathers speak openly about child-care obligations, their colleagues will adapt.

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Do you beat up on yourself for being a bad parent? There’s an alternative.

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At elite colleges, faculty members have been noticing a problem. Many students, while impressive on paper, seem to be unable to cope with simple struggles—getting assigned to a dorm room they’re not thrilled with, scoring less than an A-minus on a midterm, or not making the cut on school teams. The lack of resilience has become so apparent that Smith College now offers an entire course on how to fail. (One uncomfortable class project: having your worst failures projected onto a large screen in the campus hub. Ouch.)

After my husband’s death, I set out to learn everything I could about how kids persevere through adversity.

Children often don't want to go to sleep, and parents don't like to put them to bed. A simple card makes it much less of a struggle, researchers say, giving everyone in the family some control.

A new Washington Post poll shows how the burden of tending to children is shaping careers.

Parents have a better chance of controlling their children’s addiction to texting and gaming if they set aside family times for putting down devices.