Is your parental anxiety climbing as your child gets closer to college? Are you sweating the SAT more than your kid? Do you fear a teen's college selections might be based on a great cheese steak and hot campus tour guide? Every year millions of students graduate from high school. Approximately 70 percent will enroll in college. And at least a few million parents will tear their hair out. Stuck in a confusing, competitive, and costly process with a moody teen, parents are left searching for support, solutions, and reassurance that their kid will get into college and their family will return to normal. College Bound and Gagged is the straight-talking survival guide for anyone who needs to rein in their high school student or the crazy process. If you need the inside scoop on how to get the job done, but don't have time for 300 pages of dry facts, or you're searching for a little comic relief when it seems like there's nothing to laugh about, you're in the right place. Whether it's time to buckle down or calm down, this will give you the tips and insight you need to nurture student success, preserve family resources, and maximize relationships. College Bound and Gagged tackles procrastination, confusing procedures, competitive parents, standardized test anxiety (especially yours!), campus tour trauma, admissions office disasters, and all the other bumps on the road to higher education. With top tips from leading college experts, top-five lists to keep you informed, helpful online and print resources, fun illustrations, and humor that will hit home, this book is the prescription for every family on the college journey.
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Nancy Berk, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, award-winning humorist, stand-up comic, and author. A frequent contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul, she blogs for The Huffington Post, USA Today College, and MORE Magazine. Author of Secrets of a Bar Mitzvah Mom (2005), Nancy has been spotlighted in the New York Times and interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, CNN, MSN, and national magazines. One of the 2010 winners of the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, she has appeared on television and radio, and hosts two podcasts: Whine at 9 and College Mom Minute. Nancy and her husband Ron are the proud parents of a college graduate and a college freshman.
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A" Must Read" for parents of college bound students,
This review is from: College Bound and Gagged: How to Help Your Kid Get into a Great College Without Losing Your Savings, Your Relationship, or Your Mind (Paperback)
Nancy is a terrific author--combining just the right balance of humor and information. College applications create a stressful time and Nancy's guidance takes the edge off of this anxiety filled confusing process. If your child is going to college, you need to read this---specifically before the student's senior year! I especially enjoyed the "Twas the Night Before SATS " video......
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My Kind Of Survival Guide - smart and funny - for the whole family - especially me! the parent.,
By Susan in Chilmark (Nicasio, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: College Bound and Gagged: How to Help Your Kid Get into a Great College Without Losing Your Savings, Your Relationship, or Your Mind (Paperback)
I came across Nancy's book at a perfect time. Well, perhaps I could have used it last year - when our first born child was applying to college. But maybe having gone through that ordeal once without help made me appreciate this book even more when it did cross my path. I have four children, the second in line applying for college now. The advice, humor and operating instructions this book has to offer I know will make this round a much more successful process - for my applicant child, myself, my husband and our entire family. Humor is the key survival skill, which Nancy has in spades. It's not just a how to - next steps type of book - but it also addresses the emotional powerhouse that comes with the territory. As she recalls her own story, I am also comforted to see that I am not the only one who felt I was loosing a grip on an otherwise successful history of parenting. Yippee.. Thanks Nancy for writing this. There are so many books on how to prepare the student for college but none that I have ever seen on preparing the parent and the whole family. Lucky for us that you addressed this issue.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book for parents and even students,
This review is from: College Bound and Gagged: How to Help Your Kid Get into a Great College Without Losing Your Savings, Your Relationship, or Your Mind (Paperback)
There are so many college advice books out there and they all seem to have one thing in common: They make me nervous. Whether it's about SAT prep or searching for colleges, I've come away from these books feeling like the four years of college are more important than any others and you have to do it all "right" (whatever that is). Berk's treatment of the subject is completely different and refreshingly so. She provides plenty of tips and useful information, but she maintains a sense of humor (a great sense of humor, actually!) and she keeps things in perspective. It's wonderful if it all works out the way you planned, and Berk's detailed information will certainly help you achieve that goal. But Berk also makes it clear that it's not the end of the world if your child doesn't get in to the college of his/her choice, and it's not the end of the world if your child initially chooses the wrong place and eventually transfers. Berk's message is reassuring but also fact-based. You'll learn a lot from this sage mom, and she'll make you feel better in the process.
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