It can be hard on a teen who goes off to college. Getting homesick is common. Here's how parents can help. Freshman year of college may be a little rocky, and homesickness can plague a freshly minted ...

Thousands of college students move into local dorms this week. (Getty Images)(Getty Images/iStockphoto/clsgraphics) Starting college can stir up a mix of emotions ...

The enrollment deposit to Boston University may have been a couple of hundred dollars, but the thrilling idea of going to school 1,000 miles away from home was priceless. I spent my entire life in the ...

Homesickness is a tough emotional disease to beat. It fills you with longing, sadness, and fear that the new place you are in will never compare to the place from which you came. And it can be ...

For freshmen going off to college, the first weeks on campus can be filled with heady excitement. But as things settle down and the newness wears off, it’s easy for homesickness to set in. Anxiety, ...

As you enter college and may be away from home for the first time, you may find yourself thinking of home and what you may have left behind to come to college: friends, family, and your other ...

“Funny enough, whenever I felt homesick, it was because I missed my own dog, not because I missed my parents or sister." Leaving home and going away to college is stressful. Coping with dorm life, ...

The flashbacks are coming fast and furious this week as my oldest nephew begins his college career. “The best time of your life,” people keep telling him. I decided to share with him a different ...

It’s been more than 50 years, but I still remember that heavy feeling. I sat in my room and wondered if others felt it, too. I didn’t have the courage to ask, because what if they said they were just ...

Leaving for college is typically a time of excitement for students, one that represents new opportunities and, for many, their first venture out on their own, living away from family. But with that ...

“Funny enough, whenever I felt homesick, it was because I missed my own dog, not because I missed my parents or sister." Leaving home and going away to college is stressful. Coping with dorm life, ...