Dear Parents,
I am getting ready to send my oldest to college this fall. The whole process of looking and applying for colleges was overwhelming. It's so much more competitive now than it was when I went to college, and I don't remember it being so involved. I guess I didn't have so many choices, so everything was simpler, and I didn't go away, I lived at home and commuted to school.
I've been attending college orientation sessions for new students (my daughter) and their parents. The experience is one of information overload, trying to find your way around campus, selecting meal plans, dorm room accessories, and so forth. We've met lot's of new people, and my daughter met her new roommate for the first time. It's simultaneously exciting and exhausting. With so much to do and so many decisions to make, it somehow escaped me until just today that she's actually going to be moving out this fall. I didn't expect this sense of sadness, but now that I'm here, I am realizing that the next time we come back, I'm going home without her.
I am totally going to be one of those parents that cries all the way home.
To Your Family,
Jane Cabrera
The Parent Success Coach
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