Tips For Parents

If time is money, your college student’s summer vacation is valuable, even if it’s spent sleeping in or working a part-time retail job. Consider the following tips to ensure that your student’s break is productive and well-spent.

The best way to help young adults prepare for college and beyond is to guide them in basic life skills, like communication, decision-making and interpersonal skills. Parents can help their students strengthen these skills by walking them through a goal-setting process that will instill self awareness, confidence and critical thinking skills.

There’s a particular pattern that plagues students from the moment college admittance letters start rolling in to when they accept their first job after college graduation: the obligatory parental questions. Parents will do their students, their students’ friends and themselves a favor by avoiding the commonly asked questions and taking the conversational road less traveled.

Most parents of college students share one, uniting characteristic: the desire to help their students gain independence and be successful. But parents’ pursuit can lead to misinformation on the Web, where cookie-cutter advice can be irrelevant at best and harmful at its worst.

The Internet connects us all. It's a powerful tool that has changed the way we do business and relationships. But there are also few dangers as threatening or as overlooked.

The holidays are right around the corner, so now is the time to stress-proof your teen by talking with them about any potential friction areas.