SURVIVING THE EARLY WEEKS AS A NEW COLLEGE PARENT By Suzanne Shaffer
When it was time to say goodbye to my daughter after helping her move to her new campus, I didn’t even mist up. But on the airplane later, I’m sure my fellow passengers wondered why I was crying the entire flight home. Not all the tears were from sadness. There were tears of pride and thankfulness, too, and in general a feeling of breathless expectation. She and I were both about to go through some big changes.
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The early weeks of my daughter’s college career were a mix of excitement, frustration and panic…and those were just my emotions. After 18 years of doing my best to raise a responsible adult, I wasn’t so sure she would act like one — or so sure I was ready to let her try.
