Being A Source of Strength for Your
Student
Patience, understanding, empathy – these are the prime
characteristics parents will want to cultivate as their children
adjust to college life. These traits, which you’ve drawn upon
throughout your life as a parent, will strengthen your ability to
help your child through the ups and downs of college life:
- Be supportive;
- Set expectations at the beginning;
- Determine a mutual time and ways of communicating regularly
with your student;
- Talk, talk, talk;
- Listen, listen, listen;
- Learn to let go.