Recommended Resources

You can always turn to Parent and Family Affairs for support; however, there are also several books we recommend that are filled with useful information, helpful stories, and excellent advice. The following books are all staff-recommended, and parent-tested and approved.

• Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
  By Karen Coburn & Madge Treeger
  Quill Publishing; 4th Edition (April 2003).
   
   
   
   
   
• Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years
  By Helen Johnson and Christine Schelhas-Miller
  St. Martin's Griffin; May 2000.
   
   
   
   
   
• You're On Your Own (But I'm Here if You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years
  By Marjorie Savage
  Simon & Schuster; July 2003.
   
   
   
   
   
• Empty Nest…Full Heart: The Journey from Home to College
  By Andrea Van Steenhouse
  Simpler Life Press; 2nd Edition (April 2002).
   
   
   
   
   
• In Addition to Tuition: The Parents' Survival Guide to Freshman Year of College
  By Marian Edelman Borden, Mary Anne Burlinson, and Elsie R. Kearns
  Checkmark Books; 1996.
   
   
   
   
   
• When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parents' Survival Guide
  By Carol Barkin
  Harper Collins; March 1999.
   
   
   
   
   
• Almost Grown: Launching Your Child from High School to College
  By Patricia Pasick
  W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd Edition (March 1998).