Two years ago my oldest graduated college, but I can still picture her walking back to her dorm after we said our goodbyes on move-in day. I cried on-and-off during the long ride ...
Types of Insurance Your College Student Might Need
Nora Savosnick is a photojournalism student from Norway who is studying in New York. She has a lot of expensive camera equipment that she carries with her all around the city. If she were a stu...
Colleges Like Parents. They Really Do…..Sort of.
Let’s start with a basic truth: Parents, you are not the ones going to college. Your kids are. Colleges therefore prefer, and most insist, that by the time they get to college, kids are able to...
How Often Do College Students Talk To Their Parents?
There is no doubt about it that once your child leaves for college, the amount of day-to-day (or hour-to-hour) contact you have with them changes. Being miles, and sometimes miles and miles away can p...
A Practical Packing List Of Things To Bring To College
Well summer is in full swing and most high school graduates have been vegging out for weeks. Notice, I didn’t say ‘Seniors”, because they have abandoned that status the second the tassels moved over. ...
College Dorm Checklist: Advice For Parents Of Freshmen
I hesitate to write this, but I know it will be beneficial advice to parents of soon to be college freshmen. I have outfitted six college dorms at five different colleges. So I speak from my ex...
Mental Health Problems College Students Face
As a parent who has just finished the college admissions process with your student, you probably feel maxed out on advice. Instead, you’ve moved on to new discussion topics like handling roomma...
Dorm Room Checklist of Amazon College Essentials
It’s never too early to start collecting essentials for your college student-to-be’s dorm room. We agree with so many experienced parents who have said “take the minimum to college a...
Articles Our Readers Loved in 2017: Road2College
With every passing year, the topics of getting into college and how to pay for it are becoming more prominent (and pertinent). So, it’s no wonder that this year’s Road2College.com articles...
What I Wish I Knew About Access to My Child’s College Records
PARENT STORY When my son started college, I didn’t know that I wouldn’t automatically have the right to access his educational records. As a result of the Family Educational Rights and Pr...