CollegiateParent’s Resources for OSU Parents

Grown and Flown

• Dear Kids, This Is Our Family’s Last Graduation So, Listen Up!
  Dear Kids (because you’ll always be my kids even when you’re older than I am now), On the occasion of our family’s last high school graduation, I’m sharing the obligatory old-person advice to young people on the verge of taking on the world. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Or listen again, because I […]
• One Dean’s Advice: 4 Things for Parents to Know This Summer
  As our kids head off to college we know our relationship with them is going to change, but how it will change is not at all clear. I’ll admit to being scared out of my mind when I sent my first son off the college. We had spoken almost every day of his life and […]
• What Made Me Cry. Hint: It’s Not Just Graduation
  Our amazing children work their way through twelve years of school; they participate in sports, in academic clubs, in service organizations. They make friends and navigate the ups and downs of relationships of every kind. They make decisions on their summer jobs, social lives, and future professions. They are capable, and we know this beyond […]
• Freshman Year Down: Why I Learned More Than He Did
  I look at the college phase of parenting much like a marriage. No one can accurately prepare you for the highs and lows, frustration and joy, disappointment and pride you will experience at various turns, especially during freshman year. Let’s face it, if someone told you, you wouldn’t have believed them anyway. If I had […]