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Resources
Resources for Parents
College Parent Central: http://www.collegeparentcentral.com
This site is designed to give parents information, and food for thought, about college and about specific aspects of parenting a college student. If you have a son or daughter currently attending college, or getting ready to go to college soon, we hope that you will find College Parent Central helpful.
College Tips for Parents: http://collegetipsforparents.org
This site to help parents who have kids in college or have high school students who will soon be entering college. Postings include news items and info that would be of interest to parents. Other topics include money saving tips, trends on campuses, important topics that parents of college students need to be aware of. Also tips on teaching young adult students money management basics.
SayStudent.com: http://www.saystudent.com
Tips on how to set up a college budget to manage your college spending, tools to keep your costs down. Students and parents should work together to setup a budgeting plan for college.
College Parents of America: http://www.collegeparents.org/cpa/index.html
College Parents of America is the only national membership association dedicated to advocating and to serving on behalf of current and future college parents.
College Board: http://www.collegeboard.com
Parents guide to college, financial aid, scholarships & grants, etc.
Books:
Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money
Synopsis: Sometimes when teenagers head off to college, parents feel less involved in their teens' lives. This book offers ways for parents and their teens to "connect" once again, and how to discuss both important issues and decisions that college students face, including peer pressure and choosing a major.
“I’ll Miss You Too”
A parent and student guide to opening doors and staying connected during the college years.
Letting Go
A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
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.
When Your Kid Goes to College
A Parents' Survival College - Synopsis: A guide for parents that shares practical advice on how to cope with the inevitable but difficult separation that occurs when a child heads off to college, offering tips on preparations, packing, homesickness, and loneliness.
You're on Your Own but I'm Here If You Need Me
Mentoring Your Child During the College Years - Synopsis: Offers valuable guidelines on how parents can maintain essential communication and involvement with their college-age child, while respecting a child's need for independence, with helpful advice on when parental intervention is critical, how to know when to back off, how to handle financial and credit issues, and more