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Communicating With Your College Student: Six Principles to Help You Make the Most of Opportunities

November 6, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
When your child leaves home for college, you worry about losing contact. She will be living at college, and perhaps not returning home for several weeks or months, so you worry. However, with some effort on your part, your communication with your student may...

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How Parents Can Help College Students Value Their Mistakes

November 4, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
No one likes to make mistakes.

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Ten Suggestions for College Parents to Help Students Through the Stress of Midterm Exams

October 7, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Midterm exam time is a stressful time for most students. For many students, midterm exam time comes as a wake-up call. The beginning of the semester has progressed smoothly, or so it seems, and then suddenly your student realizes how much there still is to do on...

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Will My College Student Experience A Sophomore Slump?

September 30, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
College administrators and faculty, and college parents, place a lot of emphasis on the transition to college and the first-year experience. We all know that these new college students, and their parents, will be undergoing a tremendous transition as they enter the...

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Sending Your College Student a Care Package

September 27, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Sometimes, there’s nothing like using the old fashioned technology of snail mail to reach out and let your student know that you are thinking of him. We hope that you’re staying in touch often. Sometimes, however, we like to make a bigger gesture. Students...

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Helping Your College Student Increase His Chances of Success

September 6, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
As a college parent, we want nothing more than for our college student to be successful in college. Although that success may look slightly different to different parents and families, important measures of success for most of us are certainly competence, grades,...

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Does Your College Student Know How to Advocate for What She Needs?

May 28, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
There are a lot of skills that college students need to learn and practice. Perhaps one of the most essential of those skills is self-advocacy, knowing how to ask for and get the things that you need to be successful. The term self-advocacy is very often used in...

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Your Student's College Dismissal

May 17, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
When your student goes to college you hope and assume that he will be successful. Most students are successful and do well. However, some students struggle – for any number of reasons. No parent wants to receive the news that his or her student has...

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Why Doesn’t My College Student Want To Attend Orientation?

March 28, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Most colleges conduct some kind of orientation for incoming students. The orientation session may happen during the summer, or just prior to the beginning of classes. Orientation is valuable and helpful for incoming students.

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College Acceptance – or Rejection – Letters: Ten Ways Parents Can Help Students Cope

March 16, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
The wait is over. The envelope may be fat, or thin, or the news may have come via e-mail. However it has arrived, your high school student has received word from his chosen colleges about whether he has been accepted, waitlisted, or rejected....

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