Raise Good Humans

What I learned when my kids said college wasn’t for them

Mindy Stern
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readJan 9, 2023

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The other day, I saw this bumper sticker. Raise Good Humans. Crisp white font on a plain black background. Its simplicity stunned me, shuttled me back in time.

When she called in tears that autumn day in 2017, my daughter 3,000 miles away, a freshman at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York, I was…

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