{"title":"Seeing parents as valuable partners can promote student success","authors":"Rene Couture Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31956","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parents don’t have to be scary. I’ll admit, when I knew that I had both a student and parent(s) waiting in the lobby for an advising appointment, a touch of anxiety kicked in, and my advising approach became much more formal. I dreaded working with parents. I thought to myself, “Why are they coddling their kids so much? These students are adults, after all.” But then I became a parent, and everything changed. I began to imagine my small children as college students in the future, and how I would want advisors and others to treat them.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dhe.31956","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Parents don’t have to be scary. I’ll admit, when I knew that I had both a student and parent(s) waiting in the lobby for an advising appointment, a touch of anxiety kicked in, and my advising approach became much more formal. I dreaded working with parents. I thought to myself, “Why are they coddling their kids so much? These students are adults, after all.” But then I became a parent, and everything changed. I began to imagine my small children as college students in the future, and how I would want advisors and others to treat them.