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 ...

Growing up in the 1980s meant navigating a world that did not cushion its edges. There were no helicopter parents hovering ...

“I have liked remembering [events] almost as much as I have living [them],” wrote the late American editor William Maxwell. The older I get, the more experiences I recall that I would rather just ...

Do you remember watching the movie Groundhog Day when it first came out? We do. Recently we watched it again with “new eyes.” What strikes us now about this classic movie are all the life lessons that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an early GenXer, I was among the leading wave of kids whose parents both worked, so I went home to an empty house every day.

When it comes to personal growth, advice is usually handed out as one-size-fits-all. While that sounds fair in theory, it often misses the mark. Men and women face different pressures, expectations, ...

“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 ...

We learn something new every day. And often, it's not textbooks but experience that turns out to be the best teacher. Some of the most important life lessons come when we least expect them. Wrapped up ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I grew up in an 1850s Greek Revival that my parents restored from top to bottom over the course of ten ...