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12 Days of the Best Adult Holiday Movies

The 12 Coolest Family Holiday Movies
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Humor – Do I still have a curfew?

College Parents of America aims to share tips, insights, and humor to make parenting easier for all of us. Enjoy.
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The Twelve Days of Christmas for Current College Parents

For current college parents, the twelve days of Christmas don't end with a partridge and a pear tree.In fact, the year-end holidays don't seem to end at all. Increasingly, colleges and universities are scheduling longer and longer periods of time between the last day of fall finals and the first day of spring semester.Beginning as early as mid-December, those of you who are current college parents began to have your sons and daughters come home for the holidays. And their rooms were probably still waiting to be cleaned from the mess they left at Thanksgiving.
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Don’t be a Thanksgiving Turkey: 5 Tips for College Parents this Thanksgiving

Although we serve all college parents at all stages, many of our most devout readers are parents of freshman in college and, you may be picking up your son or daughter at the airport, train station or appointed car-pooling spot as he or she returns from school for the Thanksgiving holiday.  You probably will be […]

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Empty Nest

Don't worry if you're feeling a little sad about your student leaving home for the first time – it's perfectly normal, assures Dr. Bill Pfohl, a professor of psychology at Western Kentucky University. (And yes, it will get easier!) If it hasn't started already, you and your children will experience normal separation pangs.As parents, you go from having a lot of control over your children's lives to having less control. That doesn't mean you're no longer necessary in their lives.
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Statistics of the Day: Chegg Survey, ACHA-NCHA II on Campus Safety

  photo from flickr user Michael TheisFrom Chegg's The Student Hub survey of College and High School students:Women are markedly more concerned about on-campus violence than men:  41% of female students rank non-lethal assaults, including sexual assault, as a top concern on campus, while only 25% of male students do – that’s almost half. Conversely, 66% of male students rank property crimes as a top concerns, with only 48% of female students saying that.  
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Rules & Language: HIPAA

Understand Important College health Documents
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Considering a career public service? You might eventually be eligible for loan forgiveness

The Federal Student Aid office in the Department of Education recently updated their materials on loan forgiveness for public service employees (known as the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program). In fact, you may have received their new version of the Dear Borrower letter about the program. While this can be a lengthy process, it can provide a lifeline to students who incurred a large amount of debt for school, but have chosen to pursue a career path that’s beneficial to society at large.