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For parents of college students 

A clearer way to understand what your college student is navigating and your role in it.

Cue a sigh of relief.

Your Student Is in College. Your Role Has Changed Too.

The College Parent Support System gives you practical playbooks for the academic, communication, and transition issues college students actually face — grounded in The Professor's Perspective: what these situations look like from the college side, and what parents may not be able to see from home.

When something comes up, you can see what may be happening beneath the surface, understand the patterns I see in the classroom, and decide how you want to respond.

Each playbook includes context, conversation language, and a clear action framework you can adapt to your student and your relationship.

And when you need help applying that framework to what's happening in your house, you can bring your question to live Weekly Parent Office Hours and get my perspective while it still matters.

Join for $57/month or $570/year — get two months free when you choose annual.

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Why This Exists

Your student calls with a problem.

You're deciding, in real time, whether this is a moment to listen, ask questions, offer perspective, or step back.

That decision is rarely obvious from the parent side.

I've spent more than 20 years watching these situations from the college side — teaching at the community college, private college, and graduate levels. I've watched students navigate academic setbacks, communication breakdowns, motivation shifts, difficult semesters, and the transition into greater independence.

I've also experienced college from the parent side with my own children.

That combination changed the way I understood the questions parents are actually trying to answer.

  • When should I ask more questions?
  • When does a low grade matter?
  • When does my student need support, and when do they need room?
  • How do I say what I mean without turning the conversation into a lecture?
  • What looks concerning from home but fairly normal from the classroom?
These are judgment calls.
The College Parent Support System gives you more context for making them.
The Moments This Was Built For

Your student's communication suddenly changes.

You know something is off, but you don't know how significant it is yet.

You usually don't have the full picture. You hear what happened after your student has already experienced and interpreted it. You may not know what happened in class, what the professor communicated, what resources are available, or what your student has already tried.

You want to stay connected while respecting the fact that college is also where they learn to make decisions, recover from mistakes, and take more ownership of their life.

These moments rarely come with much context.

You don't have to work through the library to find it. You reach for the one playbook that matches what's happening right now.

 

How the System Works

Start with the situation in front of you.

1. Choose the playbook that matches what you're navigating.

If something specific is happening with your student, begin there. If you want a broader foundation first, use the Start Here path.

2. Understand what's happening.

Each playbook explains the situation, the patterns behind it, and what I regularly see from the college side.

3. Decide how you want to respond.

Use the framework, suggested questions, scripts, and action steps to determine what fits your student and your relationship.

4.  Bring the specific situation to Office Hours.

The library helps you understand the pattern. Weekly Parent Office Hours help you apply it to what's happening in your house, this week. Live weekly during the fall and spring semesters, excluding scheduled holiday and break weeks. No camera. No question submitted in advance. Type it into the anonymous Q&A and get my perspective while it still matters.

What's Inside

Your membership includes:

The Start Here Path

A guided introduction to the system so you know which resources are most relevant to your family and where to begin.

5 Complete Launch Playbooks + Matching Podcast Series

Your initial library includes:

  • Academic Crisis & Recovery
  • Parent Communication
  • The Parent's College Roadmap
  • Exam Prep
  • First Generation College Parent Resource Guide
  • Each playbook combines practical guidance with a private podcast - audio context you can listen to when you want a deeper explanation.

13 Additional Parent Resources

Scripts, assessments, checklists, and guides covering common college situations, including academic preparation, difficult conversations, communication, and semester planning.

A Growing Playbook Library

New resources are added monthly as new situations and recurring parent questions emerge.

Weekly Parent Office Hour Q&A

A weekly meeting  dedicated to real questions from parents navigating college alongside their students.  You will be able to submit your questions ahead or in real time.

Here's the exact list:  

🧭 UNDERSTANDING THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
So you can tell normal struggle from real trouble.

  • Playbook 3: The Parent's College Roadmap (start here if you're new) What changes when your student enters college, what still belongs to you, and how to support success without becoming the academic manager.

 

  •  Parent's Quick-Start Guide to College Success Because your student isn't the only one getting ready for college.
  •  Exam Prep Toolkit Helping students get organized and study smart for their best test performance yet.
  •  10-Day Exam Checklist How students can raise scores without panic or all-nighters.
  •  College Readiness Assessment A simple check-in for parents and students to get ready for the best semester yet.
  •  Childhood Changed. College Didn't. Six shifts every parent needs to understand about what's actually changed, and what to do about it.
  •  Playbook 4: Exam Prep How to help your student build real exam readiness, instead of a last-minute scramble.
  •  Decoding College: A First-Generation Parent's Guide to the Words, People, and Systems of College The vocabulary, the people, and the systems nobody hands you if you're the first in your family to send a kid to college.

🛠️ PREVENTING ACADEMIC PROBLEMS
Before they turn into a crisis.

  •  7-Day Parent Plan Quick, low-friction steps to help your student make visible academic progress this week, without nagging or micromanaging.

🚨 ACADEMIC RECOVERY
What to do when things have already gone sideways.

  • College Rescue Plan Five fixes every parent can offer when their student is struggling, without nagging, hovering, or making things worse.
  • Playbook 1: Academic Crisis & Recovery What to do when your student is failing several classes and the family needs to decide the next academic steps.
  • Podcast: Parent Survival System: When Things Fall Apart Companion podcast to Playbook 1. Five episodes.
  • Podcast: Academic Recovery Reset Companion podcast to Playbook 1.

💬 PARENT COMMUNICATION
Scripts and frameworks for the conversations you dread.

  • Real Scripts for Real College Conversations Know what to say, when it matters most.
  • Parent/Student Contract Talk through your expectations. Not around them.
  • Difficult Conversations Script Pack A calm, collaborative way forward, without lecturing, rescuing, or blaming.
  • Overcoming Student Objections Real-life conversations for parents to help their student get help.
  • Playbook 2: Parent Communication / Difficult Conversations How to talk about academic problems without triggering shutdown, taking over, or leaving the conversation with nothing changed.
  • Podcast: Inside the College Struggle: A Parent Conversation Companion podcast to Playbook 2. Three episodes.

📅 SEMESTER SUCCESS
The rhythms that keep a semester on track.

  • Semester Reset Checklist for Parents A simple, visual guide to support students after a tough semester.
  • Semester Planapalooza Helping students get organized for their best semester yet. This is a toolkit for your student. Your role is to hand it off and check in, not run it for them.
The Professor's Perspective

This is the lens running through every playbook in the system: what I see from the classroom side of the situation, the patterns students tend to follow, what parents may not be able to see from home, and the distinctions that matter when deciding what to do next.

New memberships are $570/year or $57/month.

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Membership Terms

 

📚  Monthly memberships renew at $57/month. Annual memberships renew at $570/year.

Your rate remains in place for as long as your membership stays active.  💭If you cancel and decide to return later, the rate will no longer apply. 

🗓️You may cancel at any time, with cancellation taking effect at the end of your current billing period. 

📨Annual memberships include a 7-day refund window beginning on the date of purchase. After that window, your membership remains active through the year already paid for. 

 

About the Professor Behind the System

I've spent more than 20 years on the college side of the conversation.

I've taught at the community college level, at private colleges, and at the graduate level.

Over those years, I've watched students move through the same kinds of moments parents often encounter from home: the first disappointing grade, the semester that starts getting away from them, the communication shutdown, the missed deadlines, the confidence dip, the recovery.

Then my own children went to college.

I began seeing the same moments from a completely different seat.

Parents often have limited information while being asked to make very nuanced decisions about how involved to be.

That's the gap this system is designed to fill.

I bring you the perspective I have from more than two decades in higher education and organize it into something you can actually use in your own family.

Who This Is For

The College Parent Support System is for parents who want to stay meaningfully involved in their student's college experience while allowing that student to continue developing independence.
  • You may be sending your first child to college.
  • You may be a first-generation college parent learning an unfamiliar system alongside your student.
  • You may already have one or two college years behind you and have discovered that each stage brings a different set of decisions.
  • You may have a student doing well and want a better framework before a difficult semester arrives.
  • You may be in the middle of an academic or communication issue right now.
The common thread is simple: you care about how you show up in these moments, and you want your decisions informed by more than the small piece of the situation you can see from home.

Good questions.

Honest answers.

Monthly memberships renew at $57/month. Annual memberships renew at $570/year.

 

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College will keep giving your student new situations to navigate.

Your role will keep evolving alongside them.

The College Parent Support System gives you a place to understand what you're seeing, hear the perspective of someone who has spent decades working with college students, and approach the next conversation with more context.

Inside you'll get:

  • 5 Complete Playbooks, Each With a Matching Private Podcast Episode

    The library currently includes:

    • Academic Crisis & Recovery
    • Parent Communication: Difficult Conversations
    • The Parent's College Roadmap
    • The Weekly Academic Reset
    • Decoding College: A First-Generation Parent's Guide to the Words, People, and Systems of College

    Each playbook combines practical guidance with a matching private podcast episode that gives you additional context and a deeper explanation. A new playbook is added monthly.

  • 13 additional parent resources
  • The Start Here path
  • New playbooks added regularly (monthly)
  • Weekly Parent Office Hour Q&A - Live weekly during the fall and spring semesters, excluding scheduled holiday and break weeks. No camera necessary.  When something comes up with your student, type your question into the anonymous Q&A and I answer it live. Bring the question when you actually have the question.
  • The Professor's Perspective throughout the library
  • Full access from the day you join
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