Make Winter Break a “Get Ahead” Time for Your College Student Winter Break is almost here. You’ll have a taste of having your student home from college over Thanksgiving Break, but that is just an appetizer. The full course is coming over Winter Break, which might be as long as a month or more. Thinking [...]
Sweet Dreams! Is Your College Student Getting Enough of Them? News flash! College students don’t get enough sleep! Well, actually, this may not be a news flash for anyone. Americans overall are getting less sleep, and many of us recognize that we need more than we are getting. But college students are the group [...]
Why Some College Parents’ Involvement Increases During the Second Semester You sent your child off to college this fall. It was hard. You said goodbye. You worried. You worked at adjusting to the empty nest. You worried some more. But somehow, both you and your student survived. You got through that difficult first semester. It [...]
Before your college student headed off to school, you may have had some good conversations about both her expectations and your expectations, and about both of your hopes – for grades, for money management, for behavior, or for other things important to both of you. As the midpoint of the academic year approaches, both you [...]
Working with a good tutor can make a tremendous difference in your college student’s success. Having a tutor can mean that a student has a stronger grasp of the course material and may receive a better grade. Most colleges offer tutoring or academic support in some form. One commonly used form of student support is [...]
Chances are good that your college student may not have done the one thing that could make a difference in her health this winter – get a flu shot. Because college students live so closely together in residence halls, once the flu begins, it can spread quickly throughout a campus. Yet according to a study [...]
Recognizing the Signs That Your College Student May Be in Trouble and How You Can Help It is a natural thing for college parents to worry about the success of their students in college. We all hope for the best, and then we worry. If your college student is a long distance away, or may [...]
Undecided, Undeclared, Open, Exploring: Your College Student’s Search for a Major At a time when so many students, and their parents, say that the reason to attend college is to get a good job and have a good career, it may seem surprising that so many students are not on a “career track” immediately. Many [...]
College students experience a lot of stress. As parents, some of us are acutely aware of our children’s stress levels, and to others of us it may be less obvious. While some level of stress can actually be beneficial; many college students find the increased pressure or anxiety that are part of the experience of [...]
As college parents, one of our major concerns when our students head off to college is their safety. We want our students to do well academically, we want them to be healthy, we want them to be happy, but first and foremost, we want them to be safe. Ideally, a three way partnership will do [...]
