Right now, in my classroom, I can watch the semester split in two.

Some feel in control and feel confident. Some are starting to feel things slipping out of their control and are fighting to get thei...

Ask your student how the semester is going right now, and there's a good chance you'll get the same two words back. Fine. Good.

Ask again a few weeks later, when two papers and a midterm land on the ...

The first few weeks of the semester run on momentum. New classes, a manageable rhythm, nothing that's collided with anything else yet. Then September moves along, and it stops being theoretical. Fi...

For the first few weeks, most of this stays quiet. A student can feel completely fine for three weeks straight, not because everything is fine, but because nothing has happened yet that would tell the...

There's a thought a lot of parents have right around this point in the semester, usually quiet, usually private, usually followed by a little bit of guilt for even thinking it: My kid is smart. Why...

You said goodbye in the parking lot, or the dorm hallway, or the curb outside the airport.

You drove home, or flew home, or walked back into a house that suddenly felt too quiet. And somewhere in tha...

A student drops a class in week three. Not because they're behind. It just wasn't a good fit, and in their head, that's fine, they'll add something else next week. That's how it worked in high school....

Last week I talked about why it's normal for your student's first two weeks to look quiet. Not much homework yet, a lot of activity fairs, plenty of "nothing's really started."

That's still true. But...

Over the next three weeks, a lot of parents will notice the same thing and not say it out loud.

Your student moves in. Classes start. And as far as you can tell, they're not really doing anything aca...

I see two parents come through advising season, every year, without fail.

The first calls in a panic. Grades just posted, and something's wrong. She's Googling what a withdrawal deadline means at 11p...

One parent. Two children. Two very different college experiences.

With her daughter, she believed that giving space meant waiting for her daughter to bring problems to her. Two years later, the trans...

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