Parenting College Students and Adult Children

Should you help your child pick a major in his or her college studies?

A few tips on what to do when kids want to move back home.

It can be difficult to send your kids off to college for the first time but you can still maintain your special relationship even from a distance. Here's how to stay close to your kids at college.

Read this informative article and learn about some ideas for the best care packages for college freshmen!

Every college freshman loves to receive care packages from home. Make yours special by following these tips.

Finding time to relax and de-stress during the time your child is in college is the most important thing you can do for yourself and your child.

This article focuses on those children who are eighteen-year-old or older. The law here in Pennsylvania states that a parent can evict an adult child from their home if that child is unruly even if that child is still in school.

Fun and clever ideas for care packages to send throughout the school year.

A majority of first time college students are unsure about choosing a major. Academic advisors, faculty and career counselors are available campus resources.

Coming up with money for college may be harder during a recession. Why it may make sense for college students to take a gap year from school.

No matter how hard you try to raise your children well, they will sometimes grow up to disappoint you.

As a parent, you raise you kids, with the expectation that they will one day leave the nest and join the adult world. If your grown-up child hasn't, make sure you don't further encourage his/her immaturity.

If you're a parent who strongly values higher education and sees college as a necessary part of your child's future, the last thing you want to hear is that he or she has other plans.

Adult children living at home and things that parents should ask of them.

Maintaining contact with adult stepchildren can be problematic once they leave home. Read on to find out how to keep in touch once your adult stepchildren have left home

Almost half of adult children between 18 and 24 live with their parents . Economic and social factors can send an adult child right back to the family nest. Would you know how to handle it?

This is some practical advice for parents wanting to become friends with their adult children.

Are you the parent of a high school aged student and you constantly find yourself worrying about what your kid is to become? Does your child come home with a big smile on his face and starts to talk about college, applications, financial aid, G.P.A.

When preparing your ADHD child for the college experience, consider these options during the last year of high school.

For college students, the news of a parents' decision to separate or divorce can lead to life altering psychological complications.

What can be done when an adult child refuses to leave home?

When considering the ownership and management of a family business, it is important to consider the dynamics associated with daughter and son relationships.

Your only responsibility is to provide food and shelter for your child until they reach the age of 18 years old. After that point it's all gravy for your kids. Get off the guilt train right now and smarten up.

A list of things college kids would want if you're stumped on what to send them.

In a previous article, we looked at some of the disadvantages of lending money to adult children, such as strained parent-child relationships. But in this article, we will look at the good that can come from lending money to adult children.

There are certain things that college students should know by the time they ship out and leave their parents behind.

Many parents face the problem of their adult children bothering them with money problems. If you have such a child you need to realize that it is because you have neglected at some point to instill morals in them properly. But

How college students and their parents can stay in touch.

It is the parents' moral responsibility to give their children every advantage that they can for them to succeed in life.

If you are a parent who wishes to make their child move out when they are 18, you should think again. As long as the parent and child can live together peacefully, there are many benefits to having adult children at home.

Many college freshman are choosing to defer college attendance in a process known as "stopping out".

A compilation of conversations with family and friends of a freshman college student exploring the transitional years into an adult lifestyle.

This article provides tips and suggestions to help parents foster academic success, deal with university administrative issues, and have open and honest communication with their college-aged son or daughter.

While many young adults look forward to the day when they graduate college, get a real job and move out of their parents home, many are finding that the real world is harder than they thought.

This is both a satire and a real life commentary on the life of a college student. Enjoy!

For parents with tech savvy kids in college, it's tough to find the right gift. I help you find the right ones.

I spent three hours, over three days, polling college students on the campus of our local community college to ask them what the top gifts they'd like to receive where, and this article is what they told me.

Some college students go out and spend thousands of dollars getting every new tech product that is out to make sure they have what they will need for college.

In some ways colleges present us with a buyers market. There is plenty of time and lots of information to help you make the right choice.

If your child accrues a large debt and uses you as a cosigner, you need to take steps to ensure they make the promises of paying back the debt. Here are some things you can start doing today to help your child with college tuition and debt.

Making care packages for college students is fast, easy and fairly inexpensive. With a little forethought and a lot of love, you can make your newly-departed student feel at home, even from a thousand miles away.