Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years—from the senior year in high school through college graduation. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, this indispensable book has been updated and revised, offering even more compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute...
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For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years—from the senior year in high school through college graduation. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, this indispensable book has been updated and revised, offering even more compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information. When should parents encourage independence? When should they intervene? What issues of identity and intimacy await students? What are normal feelings of disorientation and loneliness for students—and for parents? What is different about today's college environment? What new concerns about safety, health and wellness, and stress will affect incoming classes?
Preface to the Fifth Edition ixPart I The College Experience1 Letting Go 32 Some Things Never Change: The Search for Identity, Independence, and Intimacy 123 Some Things Do Change: College Life Today 33Part II A Parents' Guide: From Start to Finish4 Great Expectations 1035 Ready, Set, Go: The Departure 1446 Orientation and Disorientation 1917 The Freshman Year: Academic Life and the College Scene 2238 In and Out Of Your Life 2849 Sophomore Slump and the Years Beyond 33410 The End is the Beginning 384Resources for Parents and Students 405Notes 415Bibliography 421Acknowledgments 429Index 431
\ Ben Lieber"A sensitive, informative and well-written guide to help parents know what their children are getting into when they leave for college. Full of practical advice and psychological insight, it’s a better antidote than Valium for the anxieties parents feel as they prepare to let their children go."\ \ \ \ \ Dr. Patricia A. Whitely“Filled with practical and up-to-date information, Letting Go is must-reading for parents embarking on this next stage of life with their soon-to-be college students. Undoubtedly, the best guide available today.”\ \ \ Louise Losos"As a high school principal, I find Letting Go to be an invaluable resource. Written in a humorous and accessible style, it answers the questions ‘What happens next and how can you deal with it?’"\ \ \ \ \ Doctor"Filled with practical and up-to-date information, Letting Go is must-reading for parents embarking on this next stage of life with their soon-to-be college students. Undoubtedly, the best guide available today."\ \ \ \ \ Larry Moneta"A seminal source of information for families and their college-bound children."\ \
