College and University Blog

In a year (or two, or three) your baby will be off to college! Like any loving parent, you want to get them started off on the right foot. But beyond buying new pillows and comforters for their dorm room, what does that look like? Here are a few ideas:

Talk with them about their goals. A successful college student is one who sets his or her own goals for learning and for life, then takes the necessary steps to turn a plan into reality. If you can help your child think through what he or she wants for himself out of adulthood and figure out the basic steps to get from here to there, then he or she will start college with an eye to the future and a sense of internal motivation that most freshmen lack.

Model independent learning. As you

Posted on 11 Oct

Elisabeth Bailey+

Elisabeth Bailey is a freelance writer and editor with particular interests in academics, food,and sustainability . She is also the author of A Taste of the Maritimes: Local, Seasonal Recipes the Whole Year Round and writes regularly for Canadian Farmers