If your child is in their senior high school year or approaching it, then thoughts of college will be weighing heavily on your mind. While senior year is an exciting time, it will go by in the blink of an eye and before you know it, they will be walking across that...
As a parent, you want your child to grow up to have a successful future, to be happy in their chosen career and be financially stable. So when it comes to their high school junior and senior year and they’re starting to make their first real-life decisions for...
The eldest of our five grand-kids, Kasey (yes, named after Ernest Thayer’s poem “Casey at the Bat” ) is now 11 years old and has for years proclaimed her intention to go to college—not just any college, but Stanford University. Admission requirements...
The athletic department at Michigan State University invited me to participate in their orientation for parents of incoming freshman athletes. These parents were no ordinary group. Some of their kids had already made their country’s Olympic teams; others had good...
The Back-story A little over a year ago I sat with a group of parents whose children were about to become freshmen at Albion College. It was a get together suggested by a long-time family friend and local leader, Dr. Harry Bonner and Troy Kase, Albion College’s...
