When College Talk Creates Friction at HomeThe college list. College visits. The essay. The cost. The application deadlines. The admission decisions. Conflicting priorities. The final choice.
The college process is often the first time the handoff becomes hard to ignore. Students put enormous effort into trying to predict decisions they cannot make. Parents step in to manage decisions their children need to learn to make. The result is more anxiety, more conflict, and less practice making consequential choices.
Young people need help.
They also need decisions that are theirs.
In My
Hands
Partly
In My
Hands
Out of
My Hands
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