Chris Alexander is a professor and dean at Davidson College. His recent Washington Post article, As drop-off looms, a professor’s note for new college parents, is one of the best I’ve read on the subject of parenting your college-age kid.
If you’re sending your son or daughter to college this fall, please read it. And if you’ve still got a few years to go, bookmark it and return to read it later. It’s difficult to not only be compassionate when you advise that parents back off, but also to give specific advice about the new kind of parenting your student will need while they’re in college. Alexander definitely pulls off both.