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10 Tips to Help your Child Find Money for College
This is a guest post by Ashyia Hill. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. You’re proud of your child for wanting to attend college but scared of the financial burden. It’s very common for parents to feel this way, especially with the rising cost of tuition. Fortunately, there are many [...]
She Left to Study Abroad
Yesterday my wife and I took our eldest daughter to the airport to study abroad for a semester in Ireland. She is now a junior in college and it was almost exactly two years ago that I wrote this post about leaving her off at college for the first time and the separation anxiety we [...]
Tips on How to Deal with Anxiety at College
This is a guest post by Susan. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. The years spent in higher education are widely referred to as some of the best years of one’s life. However, the simple fact of the matter is that stress constantly rears its ugly head during the course [...]
Knowing when to let go
This is a guest post by Melissa Crossman. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. Being accepted to college and starting on a career path can be one of the most exciting times in a person’s life. Backpack full of books and freshly-printed schedule in hand, the world and all its [...]
How to Handle a Friendship Break Up in College
This is a guest post by Pamelia Brown. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. Parents warn their children of the heartache that can come with being in a relationship and eventually ending romantic relationships, but rarely do they touch on how to get over a break up with a best [...]
Choose a College Major for Learning Potential, Not Earning Potential
This is a guest post by Donna Reish. If you want to guest post on this blog, click here to get more information. There are plenty of people who are ready to challenge me on this point already. I know, I know money is everything. Entering the real world with a degree in French Literature [...]
A college tour review; College of the Atlantic
Doesn’t this place look inviting? Are these pictures from an ocean-edge resort, Newport castle, or oceanfront wedding reception center? Nope on all three counts. It’s a college. Yes, a college! It’s called the College of the Atlantic and if you are looking for a unique experience for your four years at college you may want [...]
A Student’s Guide to Dealing with Separation Anxiety
This is a guest post by Louise Baker. If you want to guest post on this blog, click here to get more information. Unless you’re going to a local college and staying at home, going off to college can cause its fair share of separation anxiety. Depending on which university you choose, you may not [...]
5 Student Tips to a Successful College Tour
OK, I’m a parent of a college student so I do have some experience with going through the college process and have taken many a college tour. I’ve also been through the process multiple times as a student myself. I only say this to let you, the future college student know, that there are some [...]
5 Parental Tips to a Successful College Tour
If you have ever had to coordinate a college tour trip, it is important that you plan ahead. I’ve had the pleasure (yes, I actually enjoy it) of doing this on a number of occasions with my eldest child, who is now attending her first choice college, and now we are embarking on the same [...]
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