Listening To Your Parents: The Unseen Influence on Your Music Taste
Family heirlooms are treasures inherited through the generations. From jewelry to recipes, people live on through what they pass down, but that doesn’t always have…
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Blending Love
Family dynamics change throughout our lives. Your parents may get divorced and begin to date other people. No one prepares you for this until your…
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Show and Tell: The Beauty of a Senior Year Parents Weekend
VALLEY can’t speak for everyone, but for most people making our parents proud is what informs a lot of what we do, the things we…
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The Firstborn Fray
Have you ever dealt with the suffocating sense of duty that comes with being the firstborn in your family? Maybe you’ve been delegated the task…
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VALLEY’s Survival Guide to Living at Home
It’s many people’s worst nightmare: you’re forced to leave your freedom and independence in Happy Valley and return home to live with your parents. Whether…
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Sandy Hook Promise’s 2019 Back-To-School Essentials PSA
It’s been nearly seven years since a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and took the lives of 20 first-graders and six faculty members. Following this tragedy, family members of those that were killed founded a national non-profit organization named Sandy Hook Promise.
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Parents Advice to Students
College is the place to find yourself and explore new and exciting things, but to do that you need a supportive base. Your parents are there for you no matter what and with that comes some great advice!
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C’s Get Degrees: How to Tell Your Parents
It’s the end of the year, and you may know by now that you’re not going to get the grades worthy of your parents approving…
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Penn State Traditions: Then & Now
We are a university full of traditions. Some old, and some new. We take pride in our past by paying tribute, like our football players in their basic blues.
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Dealing with Disapproval
You can officially eat Easy Mac for breakfast, Ben & Jerry’s for lunch, and use the leftovers for dinner without anyone telling you not to. But just because you’re in college now doesn’t mean there aren’t some things you still have to answer to your family about, and more often than we’d like, the answer they come up with is ‘No.’
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