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

by Karen Levin Coburn

A guide to the shifting parent-child relationship during college

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A guide to the shifting parent-child relationship during college

Covering the span from high school senior year through graduation, this sixth edition addresses the practical and emotional adjustments that accompany a student’s move into college. Karen Levin Coburn frames the period around a central family question: how to stay connected while making room for a young adult’s independence. The guide discusses parental intervention, student identity and intimacy, disorientation and loneliness, and concerns including safety, health, wellness, and stress. Revised for a college environment shaped by constant communication, it organizes common questions around the changing roles of parents and students across the college years.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents preparing to send a child to college
  • Families navigating communication and independence during college
  • Parents seeking guidance from high school senior year through graduation

Themes

Parent-adult child relationshipsCollege transitionIndependence and connectionFamily communicationStudent well-being

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Book overview

The sixth edition of this classic parents' guide and college orientation staple has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the realities of college today.

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 research and real life experience, and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go, Sixth Edition, has been updated and revised, offering even more insightful, practical, and up-to-date information. In this era of constant communication, this edition tackles the challenge facing parents: finding the balance between staying connected and letting go.

  • 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?

A timeless resource, Letting Go, Sixth Edition, is an indispensable book that parents can depend on and turn to for all of their questions and concerns regarding sending their children to college.

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