Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone

When Becky Blades sent her firstborn daughter off to Harvard, she knew the world's top ranked college would not be covering the most important material: How to be kind, happy and appropriate in public… how to protect oneself from sock monsters, boring conversations and scary dates… why to keep the clothes clean. So the day before classes started, Blades e-mailed a good-bye letter with motherly advice she had kept to herself for a year.