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Advice to Parents

Recommended Reading and Helpful Website Resources for Parents

Check out these helpful books and websites, full of useful information, hints, and tips for working with your college student.

Books

Almost Grown: Launching Your Child from High School to College , Patricia Pasick

An Educated Choice: Advice for Parents of College Bound Students , Frank A. Brock

A New Beginning: A Survival Guide for Parents of College Freshmen , Kaye Bernard McGarry

A Parent's Guide to Sex, Drugs and Flunking Out/Answers to the Questions Your College Student Doesn't Want You to Ask , Joel Epstein

Becoming a Wise Parent for Your Grown Child: How to Give Love and Support Without Meddling , Ph.D. Betty Frain , Eileen M. Cleeg

Bringing Home the Laundry: Effective Parenting for College and Beyond , Janis Brody

Campus Daze, Easing the Transition From High School to College , George Gibbs

Don't Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years , Helen Johnson

Doors Open From Both Sides , Steffany Bane, Margo E. Bane Woodacre

For Parents Only: From Homeroom to Dorm Room , Julia Johnston, et al

Empty Nest, Full Heart: The Journey From Home to College , Andrea Van Steenhouse, Johanna Parker

In Addition to Tuition: The Parents' Survival Guide to Freshman Year of College , Marian Edelman Borden, Mary Anne Burlinson and Elsie R. Kearns

Let the Journey Begin: A Parent's Monthly Guide to the College Experience , Jacqueline Kieran MacKay and Wanda Johnson Ingram

Letting Go: A Parent's Guide to Understanding the College Years , Karen Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Teeger

She's Leaving Home: Letting Go as My Daughter Goes to College , Constance M. Jones

The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life , Laura Kastner & Jennifer Wyatt

The Truth About College: 50 Lessons for Parents Before They Start Writing Checks , Will S. Keim

You're on Your Own, But I'm Here if You Need Me: Mentoring Your Child During the College Years , Marjorie Savage

When Kids Go to College/A Parent's Guide to Changing Relationships , Barbara M. Newman and Phillip R. Newman

When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent's Survival Guide , Carol Barkin

133 Ways to Avoid Going Cuckoo When the Kids Fly the Nest: A Parent's Guide for Surviving Empty Nest Syndrome , Lauren Schaffer, Sandy Fleischl Wasserman

Web Site Resources

College Parents of America

College Is Possible

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

National Resource Center for First Year Experience and Students in Transition

The Parent Connection

US Department of Education-FAFSA