It’s a new semester, and whether you’re the parent of a freshman leaving home for the first time or waving your Senior off to a final year of schooling, it can be difficult maintaining your role as the parent of a young adult when your offspring is at the other end of an emotional phone call.
As caregivers, we encourage our children to confide in us as soon as they’re able to communicate, but when they’re away from home and feeling lonely or homesick, their melancholy phone calls can often leave a parent feeling tied down by geography and unable to comfort their student. Grown and Flown recently posted a helpful article detailing some suggestions a parent can use to ease their student through their unhappiness and start to thrive in their college community.