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Recommended Readings

Throughout the different stages of raising your child, there have been books to help you along the way. Here are a few books to help you as you begin your journey into this next transition—the transition to college.

• Almost Grown: Launching Your Child from High School to College, by Patricia Pasick
  
  
• Don’t Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years, by Helen Johnson
  
  
• Letting Go: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the College Years, by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Teeger
  
  
• The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life, by Laura Kastner and Jennifer Wyatt
  
  
• You’re On Your Own, But I’m Here if You Need Me: Mentoring Your Child During the College Years, by Marjorie Savage
  
  
• When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent’s Survival Guide, by Carol Barkin

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