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You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years
The essential guidebook on helping today’s college parents be appropriately involved in their children’s lives, now fully revised and updated to include the Great Recession, shifts in technology, and changes in higher education policy and practices.
Today, parents of college kids have a tougher time than ever. With the high cost of a college education, new careers emerging while whole occupational fields disappear, and increasing options related to technology, many parents feel enormous pressure to stay connected to their kids, but they also need to know when to let go.
Now completely revised and updated, You’re On Your Own (But I’m Here If You Need Me) helps parents identify those boundaries between appropriate involvement and respect for their child’s independence. Author Marjorie Savage is a parent and student services professional offering advice on a wide range of issues,
-How to cope with mood changes in the months before move-in day
-How freshman gain fifteen pounds when all they do is complain about the food
-Responsible use of new technology on campus
-The impact of Facebook and other social networking sites that have opened new communication forums but also introduced new safety concerns
With anecdotes and suggestions for experienced parents and college staff nationwide, this book is full of strategies and tips that will help parents create a supportive partnership responsive to both their kids’ needs and their own.
Today, parents of college kids have a tougher time than ever. With the high cost of a college education, new careers emerging while whole occupational fields disappear, and increasing options related to technology, many parents feel enormous pressure to stay connected to their kids, but they also need to know when to let go.
Now completely revised and updated, You’re On Your Own (But I’m Here If You Need Me) helps parents identify those boundaries between appropriate involvement and respect for their child’s independence. Author Marjorie Savage is a parent and student services professional offering advice on a wide range of issues,
-How to cope with mood changes in the months before move-in day
-How freshman gain fifteen pounds when all they do is complain about the food
-Responsible use of new technology on campus
-The impact of Facebook and other social networking sites that have opened new communication forums but also introduced new safety concerns
With anecdotes and suggestions for experienced parents and college staff nationwide, this book is full of strategies and tips that will help parents create a supportive partnership responsive to both their kids’ needs and their own.
320 pages, Paperback
Published June 23, 2020
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August 9, 2021
If getting ready to start a college search, send a kiddo off to college, or even have one in college this is worth, at the very least, a skim. Lots of great advice and information that is broken out into chapters based on where you are in the process.
August 17, 2021
This is a good book to read the summer after graduation. I read it later than I should have. Nothing earth shattering. Just really good reminders to do the things you know you are supposed to do and talk about the things you meant to, but never did.
February 15, 2022
Great information, well laid out and presented. I gave it 4 stars simply due to some editing pet peeves of mine. The information was really good and will be helpful.
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