Working on an action plan together can ease the transition.
In addition to sending her own two sons to college, Rose-Marie Hippler helps hundreds of families get ready for the college sendoff."Having been through this personally as well as professionally, I bring experience and expertise to parents and their young adults as they leap into the next phase of life," says Hippler, who has a master's of social work and is an independent educational consultant at Winter Park College Consultants."There are usually a lot of emotions stirring a…
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Mealtimes are opportunities to connect and learn from each other.
For more than 40 years, Lynn and Pat Panter have been hosting family dinner on Sundays."It's funny, this is just something we have always done," says Lynn Panter. "When our children were little, we had Sunday dinner. As they got older, we kept on doing it.
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Make your family stronger by sharing what you know about each other.
Do you know where your grandparents grew up, where your parents went to school or how they met and fell in love? Do you remember sitting around the dinner table or hearing extended family sharing stories about the past, perhaps over the holidays? Stories like, “When I was your age, we walked five miles uphill in the snow to get to school.”Although this information might have seemed frivolous and useless at the time, you might want to rethink the importance of those stories at extende…
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A Checklist for Sending Your Child to College
In addition to sending her own two sons to college, Rose-Marie Hippler helps hundreds of families get ready for the college sendoff."Having been through this personally as well as professionally, I bring experience and expertise to parents and their young adults as they leap into the next phase of life," says Hippler, who has a master's of social work and is an independent educational consultant at Winter Park College Consultants."There are usually a lot of emotions stirring a…
The Value of Family Meals
For more than 40 years, Lynn and Pat Panter have been hosting family dinner on Sundays."It's funny, this is just something we have always done," says Lynn Panter. "When our children were little, we had Sunday dinner. As they got older, we kept on doing it.
Teaching Family History
Do you know where your grandparents grew up, where your parents went to school or how they met and fell in love? Do you remember sitting around the dinner table or hearing extended family sharing stories about the past, perhaps over the holidays? Stories like, “When I was your age, we walked five miles uphill in the snow to get to school.”Although this information might have seemed frivolous and useless at the time, you might want to rethink the importance of those stories at extende…