Category: Parents Blog

Parents Blog: Homesickness – A Harbinger of Spring

Boston winters are long. Spring break comes at a time in early March when everyone has had enough and is eager to get out of town . . . for anywhere. Getaways during break are anticipated, planned, and fine-tuned during February and sometimes mom’s home cooking even wins out over exotic locales or community service. […]

Parents Blog: It is Boston . . . it’s what we do.

So yet again the national news has described Boston as buried in white and struggling. Whether it’s network or cable TV (Snow buries Boston during one of city’s worst winters—Today show), newspapers (USA Today—South the new target of this week’s major snow giving “bitterly cold Boston” a break), or websites CNN Boston has it snowiest […]

Parents Blog: Welcome

Second semester is about to begin at Boston University and that is a good thing. It has been quiet around campus for long enough. But before that first day of class, we’ll be welcoming new students (and their parents) at Winter Orientation. We’re anxious to hear their stories, to learn of their adventures, and to […]

Parents Blog: Fog

Boston is a coastal New England city and therefore prone to fog. Fog is evasive. It is here one minute, gone the next and very hard to grasp. During his student days at BU, I sometimes compared my son to fog. He was an inconsistent communicator at best but during exams, like a wind shift […]

Parents Program Radio – December 5, 2015

We’re talking housing, stress, and exams during December’s Parents Program Radio! Do you know . . . . . . if your student is experiencing normal college stress or really struggling? . . . when the dorms and dining halls close this semester? . . . if your student should be moving off-campus next year? […]