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THE OTHER COLLEGE PREP™
BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY
You Prepared Them to Get to College. Are They Prepared to Handle College Life Without You?
Important Conversations to Begin Before Your Student Leaves for College and Continue After They Arrive
For Parents of College-Bound and New College Students
Book One of The Other College Prep Series
You Prepared Them to Get to College.
But Have You Prepared Them for College Life?
Parents can spend years preparing their children to get into college.
GPAs.
College searches.
Applications.
Admissions essays.
Acceptance letters.
Scholarships.
Financial aid.
Tuition.
Housing.
Meal plans.
Transportation.
Laptops.
Dorm supplies.
Move-in day.
All of those things matter.
But there is another kind of college preparation that can be much easier to overlook.
Preparing a young person for what happens when they begin living with greater independence and you are no longer there to help manage everyday life.
For many young people, college represents one of their first major experiences living away from home or functioning with significantly greater independence.
Suddenly, more decisions are theirs.
Their money.
Their priorities.
Their friendships.
Their routines.
Their choices.
Their problems.
Their opportunities.
And increasingly, their responsibility for deciding what to do next.
That raises an entirely different set of college-preparation questions.
Will they manage their time when nobody is making the schedule for them?
What happens when nobody makes them go to class?
Can they manage money without someone monitoring every purchase?
What will they do if they begin struggling academically?
How will they handle roommate problems?
What happens when they feel lonely, overwhelmed, disappointed, or homesick?
How will they respond to pressure to fit in?
Will they know how to advocate for themselves?
Will they recognize when they should handle something themselves and when it is time to seek help?
Do they know where to go when they need that help?
And perhaps one of the most important questions:
Have You Actually Had the Conversations You Think You’ve Had?
Getting Them to College Is One Job.
Preparing Them to Handle College Life Is Another.
THE OTHER COLLEGE PREP™: BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY was created to help parents, guardians, and other supporters think beyond admission, tuition, housing, supplies, and move-in.
Because college preparation should not end when the acceptance letter arrives.
And it should not end when the tuition bill is paid.
There is another kind of preparation.
Preparation for greater responsibility.
Preparation for choices.
Preparation for challenges.
Preparation for opportunities.
Preparation for mistakes.
Preparation for problem-solving.
Preparation for asking for help.
Preparation for handling more of life without a parent standing beside them.
And preparation for important conversations that may need to begin before you drive away and continue after your student arrives.
Introducing
THE OTHER COLLEGE PREP™
BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY
You Prepared Them to Get to College. Are They Prepared to Handle College Life Without You?
Important Conversations to Begin Before Your Student Leaves for College and Continue After They Arrive
For Parents of College-Bound and New College Students
Book One of The Other College Prep Series
What Is This Book About?
This book focuses on a part of college preparation that can easily receive less attention than applications, tuition, housing, and move-in:
Preparing your student for college LIFE.
BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY is designed to help parents begin thinking intentionally about important areas of college-life readiness that may otherwise be overlooked.
It can help you consider important questions such as:
- What have we actually discussed?
- What have I actually taught?
- What am I assuming my student already knows?
- What responsibilities will my student increasingly need to handle independently?
- Where might additional preparation be useful?
- What expectations should be clarified?
- What skills may need practice?
- What conversations should happen before college?
- What conversations should continue after college begins?
The objective is not to frighten parents.
And it is not to suggest that every student will experience every possible problem.
College can be an extraordinary period of learning, friendship, discovery, leadership, professional development, community, opportunity, independence, confidence, and personal growth.
The goal is to help young people become better prepared to take advantage of those opportunities while also handling the responsibilities, choices, challenges, and decisions that accompany greater freedom.
This Is Book One of a Larger Series
BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY introduces THE OTHER COLLEGE PREP™ SERIES.
The larger series is built around a simple idea:
Important preparation deserves more than one conversation.
Rather than trying to cram every aspect of college life into one enormous book, the series is designed to allow important subjects to receive focused attention.
Families can identify an area that deserves preparation.
Think.
Talk.
Plan.
Act.
Then move to the next important area.
The Book Is Not the Outcome.
THE PREPARATION IS THE OUTCOME.
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BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY
You Prepared Them to Get to College. Are They Prepared to Handle College Life Without You?
Important Conversations to Begin Before Your Student Leaves for College and Continue After They Arrive
For Parents of College-Bound and New College Students
Book One of The Other College Prep Series
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You Prepared Them to Get to College. Are They Prepared to Handle College Life Without You?
Important Conversations to Begin Before Your Student Leaves for College and Continue After They Arrive
For Parents of College-Bound and New College Students
Book One of The Other College Prep Series
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Think About What Happens After You Drive Away.
The dorm room is set up.
The boxes are unpacked.
The bed is made.
You’ve hugged them.
You’ve said goodbye.
And eventually…
You drive away.
Then what?
You cannot make every decision for them.
You cannot solve every problem for them.
And you should not have to.
The objective is not to control their college experience.
The objective is to help prepare them to increasingly:
- Think for themselves.
- Make decisions.
- Manage responsibilities.
- Communicate.
- Solve problems.
- Recognize risks.
- Recognize opportunities.
- Ask for help when appropriate.
- Recover from mistakes.
- Advocate for themselves.
- Navigate greater independence with greater preparation.
Some Conversations Are Better BEFORE the Situation Happens.
Some decisions are easier to think through before there is pressure.
Some expectations are easier to clarify before there is disagreement.
Some skills are easier to practice before they are urgently needed.
Some plans are better created before there is a problem.
That Is Part of THE OTHER COLLEGE PREP™.
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PRODUCT UPDATES AND REVISIONS
THE OTHER COLLEGE PREP™: BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY and related materials may be updated, revised, edited, reformatted, expanded, reorganized, or otherwise improved over time.
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You Worked Hard to Help Them Get There.
Don’t Stop Preparing at the Acceptance Letter.
Getting admitted matters.
Paying for college matters.
Choosing housing matters.
Buying supplies matters.
Move-in matters.
But college preparation can go much further.
THE OTHER COLLEGE PREP™
BEFORE & AFTER YOU DRIVE AWAY
You Prepared Them to Get to College. Are They Prepared to Handle College Life Without You?
Important Conversations to Begin Before Your Student Leaves for College and Continue After They Arrive
For Parents of College-Bound and New College Students
Book One of The Other College Prep Series
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