Recommended Reading for Parents
These are articles pertaining to college student and late adolescent development and career planning, and to parent support of college-age and post-college children.
All links below are to online resources external to the Career Services web site, and they each open in a new browser window.
- College Parents of America
Site quote: "College Parents of America is the only national membership association dedicated to advocating and to serving on behalf of current and future college parents."
- TIME Magazine / time.com / Jan. 24, 2005
Grow Up? Not So Fast
MEET THE TWIXTERS. THEY'RE NOT KIDS ANYMORE, BUT THEY'RE NOT ADULTS EITHER. WHY A NEW BREED OF YOUNG PEOPLE WON'T--OR CAN'T?--SETTLE DOWN
- TIME Magazine / time.com / Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005
How can a parent help? (with transition to adulthood) - The Wall Street Journal Online / WSJ.com / March 16, 2006
(AVAILABLE TO WSJ SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.)
Helicopter Parents Go to Work: Moms And Dads Are Now Hovering at the Office