Letting Go (Fourth Edition): A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years by Karen Levin Coburn, Madge Lawrence Treeger
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(Paperback - 4TH)
- Pub. Date: March 2003
- 448pp
- Sales Rank: 10,340
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2003
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Format: Paperback, 448pp
- Sales Rank: 10,340
- ISBN-13: 9780060521264
- ISBN: 0060521260
- Edition Number: 4
- Edition Description: 4TH
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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Insightful, expanded, and experience-driven, this bestselling guide to the college years combines the timeless wisdom of past editions with the latest research on campus life.
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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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Every parent sending their first child to college should read this book.by Anonymous
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July 12, 2009: This book will prepare you for the unexpected emotional experiences of both parent and son or daughter who is leaving for college. Best if read prior to summer before student plans to leave, and refered to many times during the college years.
There are certain times and events in your students' college life that are entirely predictable, and many that are not. This bood deals with both in a knowledgable and caring manner. As a high school counselor who specializes in helping students and parents prepare for and select their colleges, I always recommend this book. Parents report that it's sometimes a "life line" for them, guiding them through unfamiliar territory.Must Have for All Parentsby Anonymous
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May 11, 2008: I was introduced to this book when I went to my daughter's orientation in July 2006 at Fresno State's (Dog Days). Terrific & easy reading. The story/information was so true and reminded me about what was to happen and to do my best to let her go. I shared the book with another friend who has a daughter that will be starting college at SF State. Then the book will be shared with a co-worker who has a daughter that will be off to UCLA. This book is its own 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.' It's right for all of us, it fits all of us perfectly. I'll continue to share this book. I have asked all my friends to write their name, student's name and college information on the front page for historical purposes.
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