<p>I found this article a bit comforting. Also mailed it to my D who was glad to see whe wasn't alone.</p>
<p>THis part was interesting as we see poster on CC getting so nervous about kids at school</p>
<p>"But there is some anecdotal evidence that this generation may be having a tougher time making that transition.</p>
<p>Lisa Wyatt, director of counseling and psychological services at the University of Hartford, says, "Unfortunately, some kids developmentally are not as prepared to do college" as in the past. "I'm certainly not speaking globally, but there are kids who are chronologically 18 and developmentally 15."</p>
<p>This is what you've probably been hearing about for a few years now: the millennial generation with their helicopter parents who swoop into the rescue.</p>
<p>As a result, college-age kids often "have no experience with how to sit with bad feelings," says Wyatt. "Their coping skills and tolerance for frustration are lower than in the past."</p>
<p>Marcia Rubenstein, an educational consultant in West Hartford, says she often sees kids who "don't know how to make decisions on their own. Their parents have disabled them ... They are so used to Mommy and Daddy [fixing] it, they don't think they can initiate changing their own environment."</p>
<p>The good news is, experts say, that most freshman relax into college life sometime during that first semester."</p>
<p>"Lisa Wyatt, director of counseling and psychological services at the University of Hartford, says, "Unfortunately, some kids developmentally are not as prepared to do college" as in the past. "I'm certainly not speaking globally, but there are kids who are chronologically 18 and developmentally 15."</p>
<p>This also may be happening because a higher proportion of high school seniors immediately go to college than was so in the past. Also, more students appear to be going to college away from home than was true in the past.</p>
<p>A lot of people at age 17, 18 or 19 are not mature enough to go to college or to go away to college. College also is not the right option for many people, who would find better matches in pursuing options like vocational education.</p>
<p>The link doesn't work.</p>
<p>"The freshman freakout"</p>
<p>enter that in Google then click on the link...</p>
<p>pyewacket ,thank you! Good article &
yes comforting.</p>