Five tips for parents sending a child off to college

<p>Just a follow up to my post on 8/28… We dropped off our daughter this Sat. to start her third year and yes, i did make her bed and cried on the way home.</p>

<p>Lisa Belkin published some responses to her How to send your son off blog entry.</p>

<p>The list from the VP at Grinnell is very good…and addresses many of the issues that have popped up on the Parents forum in the past two weeks (communication plan, managing time, see grades etc.)</p>

<p>[Checklists</a> for Parents of College Students - Motherlode Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/checklists-for-parents-of-college-students/]Checklists”>Checklists for Parents of College Students - The New York Times)</p>