Reading List
Letting Go (Fourth Edition) - A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
by Karen Levin Coburn, Madge Lawrence Treeger
From the Publisher:
This bestselling guide, read by hundreds of thousands of parents over the past decade, is now better than ever, newly revised and completely updated. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, Letting Go offers compassionate, practical, and up-to-the-minute information to help parents with the emotional and social changes of the college years. Important issues are addressed with wise advice and time-tested counsel -- a realistic and reassuring source for meeting the challenges ahead, from the senior year in high school through college graduation.
When Your Kid Goes to College - A Parent's Survival Guide
by Carol Barkin
From the Publisher:
Comprehensive and accessible, this practical guide includes info on: teaching your child how to live on his own, from balancing a checkbook to dealing with a roommate; the difference between financial and emotional dependence - and how to keep them separate; helping your spouse, younger children, and even pets deal with the transition when your child leaves - and when she returns; how to fill - and even enjoy - the hole that your child's absence leaves.
Where's Mom Now That I Need Her? - Surviving Away from Home
by Kent P. Frandsen, Kathryn R. Frandsen
From the Publisher:
Here's a cookbook with a difference. The Frandsen family offers a useful collection of hints on grocery shopping, laundry and stain removal, first aid, nutrition, and more, plus great recipes for quick, easy-to-prepare, low-cost meals. 3-ring binder format.
Where's Dad Now That I Need Him? - Surviving Away from Home
by Kent P. Frandsen, Kathryn R. Frandsen
From the Publisher:
More than a cookbook, this fatherly helping-hand is packed with hints on everything from writing a resume to changing a flat tire. Includes a detailed chapter on finances, information on simple home repair, and great recipes for barbecue, Dutch-oven chili, soups, pancakes, and more.