The Chill Parents’ Revolution: A “no regrets” guide to approaching college admissions with your teen
with Jill Margaret Shulman
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The Chill Parents’ Revolution: A “no regrets” guide to approaching college admissions with your teen
Does it ever seem like you’re more stressed out about college admissions than your teen is? This can be an incredibly stressful experience for the entire family. And the more stressed you get, the more strain it puts on your relationship with your kid. When really, they should be leading this process. What if there were a way you could actually stay calm and collected throughout the process? Jill Margaret Schulman, author of College Admissions Cracked: Saving Your Kid (and Yourself) from the Madness, shares how parents can keep their cool during the college process, and save the entire family from insanity. Join us to learn…
- What being a “chill parent” looks like in the context of college admissions
- What “chill parents” focus on as their primary objective
- How Jill’s “5 minute rule” could save you a LOT of unnecessary stress
- What a parents’ ROLE should be in the college process
- Signs that suggest a parent is possibly being too hands on (or too hands off)
- Common regrets parents express about how they approached their child’s college admissions process
- Examples of “parenting blind spots” (things that seem helpful but aren’t!)
About Your Speaker
Jill Margaret Shulman
Jill Shulman is the author of College Admissions Cracked: Saving Your Kid (and Yourself) From the Madness. Shulman has worked inside college admissions offices at elite colleges, taught college writing at The New School and City University of New York, and is founder of In Other Words, a college essay coaching and family consulting service. Shulman’s publications have appeared in The New York Times, Family Circle, Family Fun, Good Housekeeping, and O the Oprah Magazine, among others. She lives in the college mecca of Amherst, MA with her husband and two college-aged children (when they’re home on breaks). www.jillshulman.com
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