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Preparing Your Teen For College
Posted by Norbert Georget in About Teenagers, Parenting Tips on July 27th, 2010
While you might begin thinking about your child’s college education while you are shopping for preschools, you probably won’t really start thinking about college seriously until your teen is in high school. There are definitely steps you can take to help ensure your teen has the tools to succeed in life and in college from the time your teens are toddlers.
Academic success comes from having a stable and loving home environment, encouragement and enthusiasm about learning, and regular access to books. Reading out loud to younger kids and encouraging older kids to read regularly helps ensure academic success. While the preschool your child attends probably won’t have an enormous effect on your teen’s college search, the environment you provide at home can have a direct impact.
One of the most important components of your teen’s college search is the application process, which should begin as soon as your teen starts high school. This should not be a high-pressure process; even once your teen chooses a school and course of study it’s likely to change at least once. But it is important to encourage your teen to think about his or her future and to start the college search by looking at what colleges offer courses of study that match your teen’s future career plans.
The college search is a long sometimes arduous process. Most stateside schools require minimum performance results on standardizes test scores like the SATs and the ACTs. All colleges will require a basic application and many will require supplemental applications, essays, and letters of reference.
Typically, your teen should be taking steps in the college search all through high school. In the freshman year, students take the PSAT (a preliminary SAT test that helps identify the student’s strengths). Your teen should be thinking about what subjects excite him or her and how those relate to future job possibilities.
As a sophomore, your teen should attend local college fairs hosted by the high school or local community colleges. He or she should also request catalogs and information from schools that are of interest. By the end of the sophomore year, your teen should narrow the college search by region, course of study, and other determining factors.
In your teen’s junior year, your college search can include making visits to college campuses, talking to financial aid counselors about tuition costs and available aid, and narrowing down the search to some final choices. By early October of the senior year, applications should be submitted, standardized tests should be taken, and supplemental materials should be requested, like transcripts from high school, letters of reference from teachers and coaches, and application fees.
Colleges will normally make early acceptance offers by December and regular acceptance offers by February or March, although the details of financial aid possibilities as well as scholarships might take longer to determine. Once the college search process is completed, your teen will be able to relax and enjoy the rest of his or her senior year, confident about the where he or she is headed and making plans and dreaming about the future.
Norbert Georget is an accomplished professional speaker, teen motivator, parenting expert and author of the book, No-Nonsense Parenting For Today’s Teenager – How To Feel Like A Good Parent Even When Your Teenager Hates You. You may get a FREE REPORT called No-Nonsense Parenting for the Disrespectful Teenager. All the answers you’ll need to deal with your disrespectful teenager.
Do You Know That Your Student is Safe? 3 Simple Tips to Knowing
Posted by Norbert Georget in Main Blog Posts, Parenting Tips on October 8th, 2009
As a parent, we worry. In high school we worry about our teen but we usually know where they are and we might have some idea of what they are doing… Or we think we know what they are doing.
When our child goes off to college, it is a little different. The young adult now decides when they go out, where they go, who they go with and what they will do. And as parents, we do not have a clue.
We have to rely on everything we taught them over the years, when we did have an influence over them. Often we ask ourselves, were they listening? Did they get anything I taught them? Are they safe?
As a parent, a child’s safety is probably one of the biggest things we worry about besides their happiness. We want our kids happy and safe. Of course we want them to be successful, healthy, smart… The big one though, is are they safe?
The parental instinct is to hover and protect but we know for the development of our children, we do need to step back and allow them to develop good decision making skills. This will come with a few lessons though which are often hard to watch.
Communication is important and can never be replaced. When college students are doing well, we often do not hear a thing. Parents develop an anxiety though because there is always that little bit of doubt. What if they are not okay? They could be sick. They could be sad. They could be in a ditch somewhere!
So what can you do as a parent to ease this anxiety? I have 3 tips that might help.
1. Set up a regular call time for speaking with your child. I would suggest a weekly call, maybe Sunday night. Have this as part of the routine. If possible this needs to be a protected time slot for both you and your child meaning that you try and make this call no matter where you are.
2. Send them an electronic card that tells you when they pick it up. You can just send them a hug via a card. It will make their day and your day. You get an email when they have picked up the card and read it.
3. EverybodyIsSafe.com offers a program that lets you know that your student is safe just with the click of a button on their computer. It also gives you some peace of mind that if they are not safe, they have identifying information on them that will quickly mobilize communication with you and anyone else you designate.
We want our college students and young adults to have a good time. As parents, our concerns can hinder their independence. Students need to experience life. This means they have to figure out many things on their own. That is how we learned; this is how they will learn. Practical learning is what sticks.
What else can you do? You might consider sending a hand written note, “Thinking about you!” sending a box of supplies and throwing in some goodies, leaving a voice mail… I encourage Dads to be equally involved in this communication. They want to hear from you too!
It is difficult to watch these youngsters do it on their own but you must trust that all your teaching will pay off. Try these simple tips so you can have some peace of mind. I encourage you to enjoy this college experience by watching your child successfully become an independent adult.
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Norbert Georget is an accomplished professional speaker, teen motivator and author of the book, No-Nonsense Parenting For Today’s Teenager – How To Feel Like A Good Parent Even When Your Teenager Hates You.
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