Many of last year’s high school graduates will be leaving home for a college campus soon, often a bittersweet event for kids and parents alike.
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GOSHEN COUNTY – Many of last year’s high school graduates will be leaving home for a college campus soon, often a bittersweet event for kids and parents alike.
Young men and women typically look forward to the freedom and independence college life can provide, but those same men and women know they will miss the familiarity of home as well. Parents, too, have mixed emotions when kids head to college, as their sadness over a child leaving home is met with the pride they feel that the child they raised is setting out to make their own way in the world.
Few moments in life involve such significant change as the moment when a young man or woman first arrives on a college campus. First-year college students often don’t know what to expect once they arrive on campus, but there are steps parents can take to help their kids prepare for college life.
• Teach kids how to schedule their time: One of the things many college kids find once they arrive on campus is that their life is suddenly much less structured and their amount of downtime has increased considerably. Unlike high school, which keeps many kids in class or involved in extracurricular activities from the early morning through the late afternoon, college affords students much more free time, which is theirs to use as they see fit. Some kids dive right into on-campus activities, while others struggle to use their free time to their advantage.