These lessons weren't taught in school — they were earned through real hardship.

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 ...

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.

People who were born in the 70s and 80s had no choice but to learn several major life lessons the hardest way possible.

“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 ...

Aging should be viewed as a valuable stage of life, not a decline. Society often overlooks the wisdom and contributions of older adults. Elderhood offers opportunities for personal growth and sharing ...

Life has many lessons to teach us, some more painful than others — and some we’d just as soon be spared. Regardless, if you have a graduate — or if you ARE a graduate, here are some insights I’ve ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a child I dreamed of an adventurous world-career. In grade school, without traveling far away from our then relatively remote ...

"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 ...