This is a guest post by Ryan Rivera. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. Parents tend to struggle the most when it comes to a child leaving for college. You raised your child for roughly 18 years, from the day they were born until they graduated from high school, and […]
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 […]
A Student’s Guide to Dealing with Separation Anxiety
This is a guest post by Louise Baker. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. 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 know anyone and be […]
Combating Alarming Anxiety Levels in College Students
In late January of 2011 the NY Times published an article entitled “Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen”. They cite a number of factors including more pressure to perform in the later years of high school as well as the state of the economy. The study involved responses from more than 200,000 incoming […]
Separation Anxiety – How are you dealing with your child away at college?
Over a year ago, our daughter left for college as a freshman. As parents we certainly felt the pangs of separation anxiety in the days, weeks, and months that followed that dramatic day of drop-off. She was about to experience a new adventure in her life and we, as parents, were about to do the […]
How Your College Student Wants You to Behave
This is a guest post by Lianna Bessette. If you’d like to guest post on this blog, click here. DISCLAIMER: Although I am in college, I do not necessarily hold the same views as all college students. I cannot be held responsible for any variations in opinion among others of my kind. I am 19 […]
5 Parental Tips for Dealing with College Separation Anxiety
So you’ve just dropped off your child at college for the first time and are feeling the pain. That final hug was a lot more difficult than you had originally expected. Your first-born is now among people you do not know, in a completely foreign environment, and you feel the anxiety and feel helpless as […]
She left home, bye bye…
“She, we gave her most of our lives. Is leaving , sacrificed most of our lives. Home, we gave her everything money could buy.” (lyrics from She’s Leaving Home from Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles) Talk about lifestyle changes. I just joined the ranks of parents who have had to drop their […]