Letting go

By Karen Levin Coburn

Subjects: Parent and child, Nonfiction, Parenting, Universities and colleges, Parent and teenager, Education, Universities and colleges, united states, Family & Relationships, Psychology, College students

Description: 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?