Download or read book Almost Grown Launching Your Child from High School to College written by Patricia Pasick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-03-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A time of tumult, your children's transition from high school to college can also be a time of growth. This book shows you how. Almost Grown is a guide for parents to the final years of high school and first years of college, offering intelligent counsel not only in practical issues such as developing a college search plan or handling questions of money, sex, and substance abuse, but also in the psychological issues that arise during this family transition. Writing as both psychologist and parent, Patricia Pasick tackles the key question of how mothers and fathers can foster adolescents' growth and autonomy while maintaining family connections and stability. She also explores the unexpected: the impact of the changing family on younger siblings, the benefits and frustrations of college students' returning home, the challenges and opportunities that nontraditional families face, and more. Pasick delves into another critical yet underplayed aspect of the college transition: how parents' lives change. Almost Grown guides readers through this major step in adult development and new start to adult partnerships. Almost Grown contains advice from high school and college admissions counselors across the country and, at the heart of the book, stories of personal experience from parents and adolescents who are making, or have made, the transition.
Download or read book Almost Grown written by Patricia Pasick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering intelligent counsel in this time of tumult, as a child makes the transition from high school to college, "Almost Grown" tackles the key questions parents have about this time, explores the impact on family stability, and examines the challenges and opportunities which nontraditional families face.
Download or read book The Launching Years written by Laura Kastner and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launching a child from home is second only to child-birth in its impact on a family. Parents can end up reeling with the empty-nest blues, while teens find their powers of self-reliance stretched to the breaking point. During the time of upheaval that begins senior year of high school with the nerve-wracking college application process and continues into the first year of life away from home, The Launching Years is a trusted resource for keeping every member of the family sane. From weathering the emotional onslaught of impending separation to effectively parenting from afar, from avoiding the slump of “senioritis” to handling the newfound independence and the experimentation with alcohol and sexuality that college often involves, The Launching Years provides both parents and teens with well-written, down-to-earth advice for staying on an even keel throughout this exciting, discomforting, and challenging time.
Download or read book Grown and Flown written by Lisa Heffernan and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Download or read book Post College Ready written by Rebecca Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the parents, family members, and supporters who have answered late-night calls, advocated for their students, attended family weekends, and are ready to launch their almost-adult child into the post-college world. This book opens with an explanation of why the senior year is so important, written by a recent graduate who just lived it. The following chapters cover a wide variety of topics, written by professionals in the fields of family engagement, career services, leadership and civic engagement, graduate education, and alumni relations. These chapters will help you better understand many of the decisions your student has to make-whether they continue on to graduate school, apply for their ideal job, return home, suddenly tell you they aren't graduating, or decide to volunteer for a gap year--as well as how to talk with them and support them through it as the parents of a young adult. While this book is ideally read just before or at the beginning of your student's senior year in college, it will certainly be helpful at any time your student is thinking about their future, whether that be earlier in their college career or after graduation when they still haven't yet found their path (and there's information in here for that journey too). Every family is different, and parts of the book will resonate differently with each reader. Parents have many of their own experiences to contribute, and this book will provide perspective and guidance no matter your knowledge on each topic.
Download or read book What High Schools Don t Tell You And Other Parents Don t Want You toKnow written by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of What Colleges Don’t Tell You, a plan to help parents of middle and early high school students prepare their kids for the best colleges In order to succeed in the fiercely competitive college admissions game, you need a game plan—and you have to start young. In this empowering guide, Elizabeth Wissner- Gross, a nationally sought-after college “packager,” helps parents of seventh to tenth graders create a long-term plan that, come senior year, will allow their kids to virtually write their own ticket into their choice of schools. Parents should start by helping their kids identify their academic passions, then design a four-year strategy based on those interests. The book details hundreds of opportunities available to make kids stand out that most high school guidance counselors and teachers simply don’t know about or don’t think to share. This indispensable guide should be required reading for any parent whose child dreams of attending one of the country’s top colleges.
Download or read book Growing Up written by Melvin Freie and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book touches on common questions and concerns parents have when it comes to sending their children to college. This book addresses high school & college parents' questions such as these: -What do my children still need from me? What do they no longer need? -When should I expect my child to be independent? -When should I offer advice or remain silent? -Where is the line between involvement & over-involvement? -How can I fill the spaces where parenting gave my life meaning?
Download or read book Grown and Gone written by Tameka Dyon and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a high school senior or just starting college, I bet you've got it all figured out. You are about to have the time of your life - parties, no curfews, friends, fun, and a bit of school work. The next few years of college will be just like high school, except no parents, no curfews, and thank goodness no lectures. Well, that's what we thought too, but things don't always work out like we think they will. If you want real life stories and tips that will help you improve your college experience, this is the book for you.
Download or read book Parents Are You Ready The Practical Guide to Launching a Successful High School Student The 15 Step Roadmap written by Kim Duckworth and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting high schoolers is scary, if not downright terrifying. If you are not scared, you should be. Did you ever wish there was a book that could walk you and your child through a proven set of steps to get through a successful high school journey? This book is not a theoretical academic thesis. This book IS a back to the basics, in the trenches, block and tackle practical guide, based on interviews with hundreds of parents, teachers, and students; and over a decade of experience helping parents create a plethora of options for their children. What you learned in your day about getting through high school successfully isn't necessarily heralded anymore. What used to work and be revered: hard work, perseverance, dedication, character, common sense, and rigor is minimized and even ostracized. How many years ago were you in high school? 20, 25, 30? The world has changed dramatically. You didn't have to deal with the potential peril of cell phones or social media or the challenges of a worldwide pandemic. Does your child have incredible talent and potential, but you don't know how to guide them to be their best or gain admission to their college of choice? Or worse, is your child not living up to their potential? Are you concerned their young adult foundation isn't as solid as it should be? If you answer yes to just one of these questions, you need to read this book. It is your job to guide them, and this book will show you how. What you will learn: How to Avoid Mistakes Parents Often Make How to Identify and Develop Your Child's Superpower Fifteen Critical Success Factors of Middle School Life Fifteen Critical Success Factors of High School Life How to Create Options: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Years Parents - Are You Ready?: The Practical Guide to Launching a Successful High School Student takes a step-by-step approach to help parents unleash a productive, driven, successful young adult!
Download or read book Head Start to College Planning written by Susan C. Chiarolanzio and published by Barrons Educational Series. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents of growing children soon realize that it’s never too early to start planning for a child’s academic success. The middle school years are typically the time when both parents and students begin thinking about college. Even so, this book’s author advises parents not to become too college-focused too early in their child’s life. Important decisions should be made based on the child’s needs and interests, emphasizing the value of middle school years as each child’s personal experience, rather than as a stepping stone toward higher education. Following these introductory sections, the author goes on to explain the many kinds of college options available for students having different interests and aptitudes. She then discusses the search and application process in detail. Succeeding chapters focus on pre-college academic planning, developing a child’s study skills, coping with standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT, understanding the importance of nonacademic activities in a student’s life, and employing methods to compensate for a student’s learning differences. A final chapter offers advice on covering college costs. Here is a valuable guide that helps parents separate myth from reality as they prepare their son or daughter for the college experience.
Download or read book The First Year Out written by Tim Clydesdale and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager’s first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in The First Year Out, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, Clydesdale reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But Clydesdale finds that teens also stow away their identities—religious, racial, political, or otherwise—during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, sometimes even affecting the ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur. The First Year Out is an invaluable resource for anyone caught up in the storm and stress of working with these young adults.
Download or read book A Car Some Cash and a Place to Crash written by Rebecca Knight and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2003-04-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides young adults advice on living in the real world, covering such topics as job hunting, finding an apartment, living with a roommate, buying a car, and using credit wisely.
Download or read book Gloria s Way written by Ann Cameron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloria is best friends with Julian and his little brother Huey, and she has as much to say as they do. There's the parrot that ruins the Valentine for her mother; Huey's dog, who needs to be cured of his squirrel obsession; and what happens when classmate Latisha tricks Gloria, Julian, and Huey-but they don't know until it's too late! Fans of Ann Cameron's best-selling chapter books about Julian and Huey will love Gloria, too. "This is where peace begins-in an ordinary neighborhood where children learn to address their problems with the help of wise adults who offer them good counsel while respecting the children enough to let them work out their own solutions . . . . Sparkles with humor." (The Horn Book)
Download or read book Failure to Launch written by Mark McConville, Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an expert in adolescent psychology comes a groundbreaking, timely, and necessary guide for parents of the 2.2 million young adults in America who are struggling to find their way in the world. In Dr. Mark McConville's decades of experience as a family clinical psychologist, perhaps no problem has been more fraught than that of young adults who fail to successfully transition from adolescence into adulthood. These kids--technically adults--just can't get it together: They can't hold a job, they struggle to develop meaningful relationships, and they often end up back in their parents' spare bedroom or on the couch. In fact, studies show that one in four Americans aged twenty-five to thirty-four neither work nor attend school, and it's a problem that spans all socioeconomic and geographic boundaries. McConville investigates the root causes of this problem: Why are modern kids "failing to launch" in ever-increasing numbers? The key, McConville has found, is that they are struggling with three critical skills that are necessary to make the transition from childhood to adulthood--finding a sense of purpose, developing administrative responsibility, and cultivating interdependence. In Failure to Launch, McConville breaks these down into achievable, accessible goals and offers a practical guide for the whole family, to help parents instill those skills in their young adults--and to get their kids into the real world, ready to start their lives.
Download or read book Bringing Home the Laundry written by Brody Janis and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Home the Laundry combines a psychologist's advice with the stories and insights of parents and their college-aged kids. It reassures you that your child's departure for college does not sever family ties, but can mark the beginning of a deeply satisfying, exciting new phase in your parent-child relationship.
Download or read book Journal of College Student Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Supposedly Fun Thing I ll Never Do Again written by David Foster Wallace and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
