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Suggested Reading List for Family Members
Don't Tell
Me What To Do, Just Send Money When children leave for college, many parents feel uncertain about their shifting roles. By emphasizing the importance of being a mentor to your college student, Don't Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money shows parents how to influence their college student while still supporting their independence. The authors offer valuable insight into the minds of college students and provide parents with simple suggestions for improving communication with their children. Filled with humorous anecdotes and realistic dialogs between parents and students, this comprehensive guide covers a wide range of issues including financial matters, academic concerns, social adjustment, and postgraduate choices. Empty Nest...Full
Heart: the Journey from Home to College The author chronicles the tumultuous journey from the senior year of high school, through the challenging summer, to the first year of college for students. Featuring an emphasis on the freshman experience, Empty Nest...Full Heart offers a lighthearted yet savvy look at this turbulent time. The book's generous and compassionate scope makes it lively, humorous, an emotionally resonant. Helping Your
First Year College Student Succeed This informational pamphlet focuses on "letting go" as a long-term process that should never be completed. The authors encourage parents to renegotiate their relationship with their student as an adult. This concise guide features ten sections about the major events and feelings parents and students will likely experience during the first year of college and offers suggestions for resolving these issues. Let the Journey
Begin: A Parent's Monthly Guide to the College Experience As you and your first-year college student begin the school year, many questions may arise. Parent Orientation will be one opportunity to get answers to your questions. Knowing what to ask will help you maximize the benefits of your orientation. Use the strategies in Let the Journey Begin to tackle problems and find solutions. Start with these questions and review more FAQ's in Chapter 2. Remember, there is always something new to learn! Letting Go:
A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years Letting Go leads parents through the period of transition that their student experiences between the junior year of high school and college graduation. The authors explain how to distinguish normal development stages from problems that may require parental or professional intervention. The new edition explains the differences between college life today and the college life parents experienced twenty or thirty years ago. It features a completely new resource guide that introduces parents to campus technology, useful websites, and other organizations providing information on a wide range of topics. Studying
Smart: Time Management for College Students You're
on Your Own (But I'm Here if You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child
During the College Years This book helps to recognize the boundaries for a parent and student between necessary involvement and respect for independence. As a parent herself, Marjorie Savage, empathizes with moms and dads; while at the same time, as a professional working in student services, understands the complexity of student's issues.
This
practical guide will answer that important question and tell you
how to make the most of these exciting years. Topics covered in
this book are: identity formation, values development, career exploration,
social relationships, sexuality, alcohol and drug abuse, romantic
relationships, dorm life, personal freedom, depression, discrimination,
and college bureaucracy. College Parents of America: http://www.collegeparents.org "What is College Parents of America? College parents of America (CPA) is the only national membership association dedicated to helping parents prepare and put their children through college easily, economically and safely. Today, college parents represent an estimated 12 million households. An additional 24 million households are currently saving and otherwise preparing children for college. CPA is a resource, an advisor and an advocate working on behalf of these millions of families." Alcohol, Other Drugs, and College: A Parent's Guide: http://www.edc.org/hec/pubs/parents.html PFLAG (Parents, Families, Friends of Lesbians and Gays): (http://www.pflag.org) an excellent site offering good general information about issues facing GLBT individuals and how their loved ones may assist and advocate for them. The Parent Connection: (updated!) (http://www.edc.org/hec/parents/) information for parents on alcohol and other drug prevention. National Resource Center for First-Year Experience and Students in Transition: http://www.sc.edu/fye/ lots of other FYE resource information. College Times:http://nytimes.com/college/index.html .A section of the NY Times Online. If you haven't accessed the NY Times site before, you will have to register and establish a password. It's free and full of great information for both students and parents.
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