A Parent's Guide to Sex, Drugs and Flunking Out: Answers to the Questions Your College Student Doesn't Want You to Ask

by Epstein, Joel

• ISBN13: 9781568385716
• ISBN10: 1568385714
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Hazelden

Summary

Parenting doesn't end with high school. This guide picks up where other parenting books leave off -- at the very point when children face unprecedented and often confusing freedom, and some of the most important decisions of their lives. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Joel Epstein is the former director of special projects and senior attorney for the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. He is currently a senior associate in the Health and Human Development Programs division at the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
The Right School for Your Child --- and You	1	(28)
Paying for College and Getting What You Pay For	29	(16)
Choosing a Course of Study and Other Academic Concerns	45	(10)
Living the Student Life	55	(30)
Bottles, Kegs, and Other Vices	85	(28)
Health Is Academic	113	(26)
Safe and Sound	139	(22)
Who's Responsible?	161	(6)
Your Head and What's Ahead	167	(6)
Resources for Parents	173	(16)
Notes	189	(14)
Index	203	(12)
About the Author	215