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Helping Your College Student Find Support On Campus

June 22, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
As a college parent, you want to support your college student in any way that you can. You talk on the phone (but hopefully not too often), you send mail (students love to find something in their mailbox), you send care packages, you listen when she shares joys or...

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Connecting With Your College Student By Phone – Maximizing Opportunities

June 19, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
You’ve made the phone conversations with your student routine. You’re ready to listen, and you’re prepared to listen to her college adventures and share something about life at home. But sometimes the conversation just doesn’t flow. How can you encourage...

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Connecting With Your College Student By Phone – Getting Started

June 17, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Regular phone conversations with your college student are a great way to stay in touch with what is happening in your student’s life – and for her to stay in touch with life at home. Even if you keep up with each other via e-mail, Facebook, or some other electronic medium,...

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Twelve Things To Do To Help You Listen To Your College Student

June 15, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
Communication between parents and teenagers is often difficult. As parents of college students we have lived through most of those difficult years. Now that your student is headed off to college and you may not have the same kind of daily contact with her, you...

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Reach Out To Your College Student Through Good Old-fashioned Snail Mail

May 5, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
There are so many ways to communicate with your college student these days that it can be overwhelming. Do you call, text, instant message, write on her facebook wall, skype, video conference, or twitter? Technology today has allowed us to stay in touch with our...

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Eight Life Skills You Should Teach Your Student Before He Heads to College

April 15, 2009 - Vicki Nelson College Parent Central
We send our students off to college to get an education. We know that, in addition to their academic pursuits, they will be learning about life and the “real world”. So why should we need to teach them anything before they head out the door? Because there...

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