Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Fourth Edition
Coburn, Karen Levin, Treeger, Madge Lawrence
Language: English
Published by Harper Paperbacks, 2003
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- Title
- Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Fourth Edition
- Author
- Coburn, Karen Levin, Treeger, Madge Lawrence
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060521260
- ISBN 13
- 9780060521264
- Edition
- 4th Edition
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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