Letting Go, Sixth Edition: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

Letting Go, Sixth Edition: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

Letting Go, Sixth Edition: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

Letting Go, Sixth Edition: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years

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Overview

The sixth edition of this classic parents’ guide and college orientation staple has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the realities of college today. 

For more than a decade, Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children's college years—from the senior year in high school through college graduation.

Based on research and real life experience, and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go, Sixth Edition, has been updated and revised, offering even more insightful, practical, and up-to-date information. In this era of constant communication, this edition tackles the challenge facing parents: finding the balance between staying connected and letting go.

  • When should parents encourage independence?
  • When should they intervene?
  • What issues of identity and intimacy await students?
  • What are normal feelings of disorientation and loneliness for students—and for parents?
  • What is different about today's college environment?
  • What new concerns about safety, health and wellness, and stress will affect incoming classes?

A timeless resource, Letting Go, Sixth Edition, is an indispensable book that parents can depend on and turn to for all of their questions and concerns regarding sending their children to college.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062400567
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 06/28/2016
Pages: 464
Sales rank: 257,352
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Karen Levin Coburn is the Senior Consultant in Residence and former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Students at Washington University in St. Louis.


Madge Lawrence Treeger is a psychotherapist and a longtime member of the Washington University Counseling Service.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Sixth Edition xiii

Part I The College Experience

1 Letting Go 3

2 Some Things Never Change: The Search for Identity, Independence, and Intimacy 11

3 Some Things Do Change: College Life Today 32

Part II A Parents' Guide: From Start to Finish

4 Great Expectations 97

5 Ready, Set, Go: The Departure 141

6 Orientation and Disorientation 189

7 The Freshman Year: Academic Life and the College Scene 221

8 In and Out of Your Life 281

9 Sophomore Slump and the Years Beyond 330

10 The End Is the Beginning 378

Resources for Parents and Students 399

Notes 411

Bibliography 417

Acknowledgments 425

Index 427

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