{"product_id":"9781475810790","title":"College Success Guaranteed 2.0: 5 Rules for Parents","description":"Teaching for nearly 40 years, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of high school graduates head off to college. After a while, he began to notice some unmistakable patterns—good and bad—relating to students after they hit college. About a decade ago, he began giving an annual talk to high school seniors in hopes of sending them off to college on a positive note. This led to the book College Success Guaranteed: 5 Rules to Make it Happen (Rowman Littlefield, 2011).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince writing the book, many parents have asked for tips on how they might optimize their son or daughter’s college experience. Hence, Malcolm formulated College Success Guaranteed 2.0:5 Rules for Parents, these five simple rules include: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake them pay… for something\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWait for their call\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStep aside… and make way for new mentors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMantra—is this my issue?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet curious\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith anecdotes from college parents from over fifty schools, it is his hope that these stories combined with the stories from the 5 Rules for Students, will ensure your child “the best four years of their life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive simple, clear-cut rules for parents of college students\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStories and anecdotes from scores of actual college parents representing over 50 colleges and universities, all offered in a helpful non-judgmental tone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences to several contemporary authors, psychologists, and family therapists on the nature of today’s American family, the current national tendency toward parental over-protectiveness, and some new approaches parents might take\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA bibliography of relevant books for further reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA bonus chapter on how kids and parents might join together to face the troubling angst currently surrounding the annual college application process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135771427056,"sku":"9781475810790","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781475810790_p0.jpg?v=1769893471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781475810790","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}