In my book, I often talk about how the well-meaning and sometimes unintentional over-involvement of parents can actually be detrimental to students learning their own organization, time-management and coping skills. The College Board put together these ten tips for helping students become more self-resilient that I found really helpful – check it out here.
Parents often pick up the phone or send an email off to a teacher or counselor when in reality the child could and should be doing that themselves. In my office, I notice how some students are much more apprehensive to approach adults or teachers, and I think that it is in part because their parents have taken to great of a role in doing that for them for too long.
Because even if we wanted to go to college with them, we can’t, and teaching them self-reliance in while they are young is one of the greatest gifts we can ever give young people.