How to Help Your College Freshman When They’re Homesick

“I hate it here, I want to come home.” These are nine words, uttered by a brand new college freshman, that break a parent’s heart. We watched our kids work hard, we supported them in their journey to college, we dropped off an excited teen only days ago and…now this. They are homesick.

Many of our kids have left everyone and everything they have ever known. Parents, siblings, pets and almost every friend in their young lives are miles away. They now live in a small, often cramped, room with...