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Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Fourth Edition - Softcover

Coburn, Karen Levin; Treeger, Madge Lawrence

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9780060521264: Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Fourth Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0060521260 ISBN 13: 9780060521264
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2003

Synopsis

This bestselling guide, read by hundreds of thousands of parents over the past decade, is now better than ever, newly revised and completely updated. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information to help parents with the emotional and social changes of the college years.

  • 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?

These important issues and more are addressed with wise advice and time-tested counsel in Letting Go -- a realistic and reassuring source for meeting the challenges ahead, from the senior year in high school through college graduation.

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About the Author

Karen Levin Coburn is the Senior Consultant in Residence and former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Students at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0060521260
ISBN 13 
9780060521264
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
4
Number of pages
448
Rating
  • 3.67 out of 5 stars
    392 ratings by Goodreads