Welcome the New Year

It’s funny; you wait with almost uncontrollable excitement to welcome your college students home for the holiday, however, the rush of the holiday season combined with the plans that your child has to visit all the friends that they haven’t seen for a while, seem to invade any opportunity for an uninterrupted conversation.

You spend much of the season bragging about your children at every holiday event. You glow as you visit all the relatives and witness the conversations they have with your child about their colleges and their experiences they have been having. You listen to the answers that your child gives to many of the questions, finding yourself learning more about your child with every answer. Then it dawns on you, the child that you dropped off at school in August has slowly turned into an independent, responsible and respectful young adult. They are changing and becoming their own person, and even to a point of surprise to you, they do know how to handle things well and they do know what they want.

Talking to your child daily, knowing what they are up to or into is still a part of the daily routine. Staying involved is still just as important to keeping them on track. However, you breathe a bit easier because once the New Year has come and they head back to school, they are experienced college students. They now realize what is expected of them and what they need to do to handle that responsibility. They now realize more than ever, that it is their job and there are no excuses or reasoning in the world they can use that will explain why they’re not on track. Hard work and commitment is the key to success. (No, they aren’t just words on a plaque...)

From our family to yours – Wishing you a Happy and Rewarding New Year