A Recommended Reading List
As you prepare to send your student off to school in the fall, it's likely that you'll have a lot of questions and concerns. The following books are commonly recommended to parents as they provide valuable tips about the college experience:

• The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up by Barbara Hofer and Abigail Moore (2010)
  
• Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger (2009)
  
• You're On Your Own (But I'm Here If You Need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years by Marjorie Savage (2009)
  
• A New Beginning: A Survival Guide for Parents of College Freshmen by Kaye B. McGary (2008)
  
• The Parent's Crash Course in Career Planning by Marcia B. Harris and Sharon L. Jones (2007)
  
• 25 Ways to Make College Pay off: Advice for Anxious Parents from a Professor Who's Seen It All by Bill Coplin (2007)
  
• I'll Miss You Too by Margo E. Bane Woodacre, MSW & Stephanie Bane (2006)
  
• Parents' Guide To College Life: 181 Straight Answers on Everything You Can Expect Over the Next Four Years by Robin Raskin (2006)
  
• Making the Most of College — Students Speak their Minds by Richard J. Light (2004)
  
• Empty Nest...Full Heart: The Journey from Home to College by Andrea Van Steenhouse (2002)
  
• The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior to College Life by Laura Kastner and Jennifer Fugett Wyatt (2002)
  
• The Myth of Maturity: What Teenagers Need from Parents to Become Adults by Terri Apter (2002)
  
• Let the Journey Begin: A Parent's Monthly Guide to the College Experience by Jacqueline Kiernan MacKay and Wanda Johnson Ingram (2001)
  
• Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money by Helen E. Johnson and Christine Schelhas-Miller (2000)
  
• When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent's Survival Guide by Carol Barkin (1999)
  
• Almost Grown: Launching Your Child from High School to College by Patricia Pasick (1998)
  
• The Truth About College: 50 Lessons for Parents Before They Start Writing Checks by Will Keim (1997)
  
• Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Today's College Experience by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger (1992)
  
• When Kids Go to College: A Parent's Guide to Changing Relationships by Barbara Newman and Philip Newman (1992)

These books can be helpful not only to you now, but as your relationship with your student grows and changes over the next number of years.