How can you encourage your college freshman? Your child is sleep-deprived, stressed, and longing for break. Encourage your freshman in these 5 areas!
6 Tips for Staying Focused in Class
You cannot focus in your college classes. How can you regain focus before your grades suffer? Use these 6 tips to help you get and keep focus in class!
9 Ways to Think About Your Role as a College Parent
How should you think about your parenting role? Your freshman is grown up. Does your role need to grow up with him? Use these 9 comparisons to help you parent your college freshman.
How to Stay Healthy at the End of the Semester
Can college freshmen actually stay healthy in college? Yes! Having a social life, earning good grades, and making one’s health a priority requires discipline, but you can do it!
How to Listen to Your College Freshman
You are trying to listen well to your freshman, but somehow you always come up short. Your freshman is frustrated and so are you. How can you listen better?
How to Confront Your College Roommate
Your college roommate’s behavior annoys you, but you’re afraid of damaging your relationship. Learn more about how to identify the problem and initiate a conversation!
How to Talk About Your Freshman's Future
Your freshman does not understand what adulthood is truly like. He is inexperienced and naive. How can you help him find summer work and plan for his future career?
The 2 Biggest Lies College Freshmen Tell Themselves
How are you talking to yourself? College freshmen often allow themselves to think less than honest facts. Learn what the 2 biggest lies are and how to combat them!
How College Parents Can Teach Gratitude
Teaching gratitude doesn’t stop when your freshman is at college. Learn how these using 3 habits can help instill a grateful attitude in your child!
How College Freshmen Can Practice Gratitude
You feel like you can't keep going. You’re ready to be done or to give up. Don’t. Instead, learn how practicing gratitude can change your perspective.
Before and After: Spring Break From Your Freshman's Perspective
What is spring break like for your college freshman? Help your freshman have a good spring break experience by seeing it from your freshman’s point of view.
Spring Break: What Freshmen Should and Shouldn't Expect
Spring break is finally here! You’ve been counting down the days, and it arrived. What should you and shouldn’t you expect going into your first college spring break?
How to Show Your Freshman That Character Matters
How can college parents communicate that character matters? Exemplify that character matters through your own behavior. See how your actions and words influence your freshman’s character.
How to Stop Fixating and Start Dealing With Small Problems
Do you fixate on small problems? Many freshmen struggle moving on after making mistakes. Learn how to deal with your problems and move on with three questions.
Putting the Care in Care Package
Do care packages matter to college freshmen? You rarely received one while in college. See why care packages matter, how often you should send them, and what items you should and shouldn’t include.
How to Get Stuff Done (Even When You Don't Feel Like It)
How can you still get stuff done even when you don’t care anymore? Your homework won’t disappear, so push pass your feelings and use tried-and-true methods to get stuff done!
What Earning Bs Teaches College Freshmen
How is earning a B the best thing that can happen to your freshman? Achieving less than all As can teach your freshman many valuable lessons including these 4.
How Top College Freshmen Study
How do top students succeed academically? Are they merely smarter or is there something else that helps them do well? Top students succeed by refusing to form 4 bad habits.
Doing Before Loving
Doing or loving? Which comes first? How is “doing what you love” harmful to your freshman’s college years and future career? Consider these questions.
Why You Are Not Your Major
Why do you feel like you’re experiencing an identity crisis? This thinking might be a sign that you are allowing your major to define you, but you are much more than your major.