Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years - Softcover

Coburn, Karen Levin; Treeger, Madge Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060521260 ISBN 13: 9780060521264

Publisher: Quill, 2003

Synopsis

This bestselling guide, read by hundreds of thousands of parents over the past decade, is now better than ever, newly revised and completely updated. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information to help parents with the emotional and social changes of the college years.

• 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?

These important issues and more are addressed with wise advice and time-tested counsel in Letting Go -- a realistic and reassuring source for meeting the challenges ahead, from the senior year in high school through college graduation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quill
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060521260
• ISBN 13: 9780060521264
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 368