Five Things I Tell Worried Parents About That First College Drop Off

We are just weeks away from dropping our youngest child off to college and the ease with which I am approaching this milestone shocks me. Shouldn’t I be freaking out ? Shouldn’t I be chasing down that child with nagging questions that start with “Why haven’t you…” and end with “...YET!?!?” 

I am not.

Instead, I am completely (and blissfully) checked out. It’s not that I don’t have an interest in the ramp-up to that drop-off at the dorm. It’s that I’ve done this before and I know that, in t...