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Waiting for the College Acceptance Letter: How Parents Can Help

March 13, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central

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Talking to Your College Student About Grades

February 19, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Obviously, grades are a big part of the college experience. Students attend college for many reasons, but classroom experiences, and the grades that go along with those experiences, are an important measure of college outcomes. Some students seem to care more...

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Talking to Your College Student About Stress

February 5, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
As parents, we want to help our students have the best college experience possible. We want to protect them from harmful things and keep them healthy. As college parents, some of the difficulty that we experience is knowing that we cannot always “make things...

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Is Your College Student Stressed? Probably.

February 5, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
College students experience a lot of stress. As parents, some of us are acutely aware of our student’s stress levels, and to others of us it may be less obvious. Of course, not every student experiences stress, and some students actually thrive on a certain...

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When Your College Student Is Unhappy

January 26, 2011 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central

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New Year’s Resolutions for College Parents – and Their College Students

December 28, 2010 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central

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What to Expect from Your College Student’s First Semester Grades

December 6, 2010 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Many college parents wait expectantly, hopefully, and sometimes fearfully for those first semester college grades as a measure of how their student is doing in college. Although many students may have a better inkling of what to expect when the grades arrive, they,...

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Parents Can Help College Students With the End-Of-Semester Stress Meltdown

December 1, 2010 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
College parenting is difficult. Anyone who has a student headed to college, in college, or recently out of college has realized just how difficult the college parenting job can be. One of the most difficult things about this phase of parenting is feeling...

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College Parenting With the College Calendar

November 27, 2010 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
As a college parent, or pre-college parent, you probably used the calendar diligently to watch the deadlines for college fairs and open houses, college applications, financial aid forms, deposit deadlines, and housing deadlines. Now that your student is actually in college...

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Undecided Students: How Can You Help?

November 20, 2010 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Once you’ve begun to think about why your student might be undecided about a major, you will recognize that the work of coming to a decision about a potential major will need to be done by your student. But you may wonder whether there is anything that you can do to...

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