In the US, our collective definition of an “adult” differs from beliefs of a hundred years ago. Recent decades have perhaps unintentionally encouraged legal adults to remain adolescent in many ways—remaining financially dependent on their parents even after receiving a four-year college degree. I’d like to contribute to reversing the trend by providing resources for parents and students regarding both the parent child contract and your college budget.
Quick files in pdf format:
College 101. Is your child really an adult?
College 102. Is your parent-child relationship ready for college?
Use these free resources to assist in stimulating discussion and improve research.
The College Contract Analyzer - makes suggestions on how best to use the College Contract process with you and your adult college bound child. The tool is provided in Microsoft (c) Excel 2003. Use this tool to see if you and your adult child will be able to do the College Contract process, and whether it will benefit you.
College Contract ™ Analyzer is a free download. This tool is created using Microsoft (c) Office Excel 2003. Launch and download the tool to identify suggestions for how best to use the College Contract ™ for you and your adult college-bound student. Copyright John A Honeycutt 2008. All rights reserved.
High School students, new high school graduates, and even young adults sometimes get frustrated at not being treated like an adult. This tool draws from academic research. Sometimes the analysis sounds kind of harsh. Still it can be used to point out some reasons. You should know in advance the results truly do sound harsh sometimes for some people. It may seem like the tool is making a value judgment. In a way, it does. But that's not the intention. It is meant to provide some self-assessment and reflection. Absolutely cultural bias is reflected in the tool. It is not meant to offend, just state what we probably already feel and assist you, or your college student in the decision making process.
Are You An Adult is a free download. This tool is created using Microsoft (c) Office Excel 2003. Use the tool to "self-evaluate" whether you would be "assumed to be" and "perceived to be" an adult by other adults. This tool is based on academic research related to characteristics typically considered to be "adult-like" in the US culture. It is not intended to make value-judgments, rather to assist individuals in identifying potential areas, improve college student decision making, and notice adjustments to be made in their lives. Copyright John A Honeycutt 2008. All rights reserved.
College Topics and Web LinksCollege Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity.
FastWeb, the Internet's leading scholarship search service, helps college student decision making skills and shape their lives by: choosing a college, paying for college, and finding jobs and internships.
FinancialAidSuperSite a subsidiary of the College Service Center is the online leader of financial aid services and has engineered a total solution for parents who wonder how they are going to pay for college.
College-Scholarships provides an online directory of college and university admissions office email addresses and telephone numbers.
Purchase These College Contract Templates:
Save time and purchase a College Contract template today. Spend your time communicating with your college-bound child - discussing a range of important topics from finance, to degree plans, to how mistakes and poor decisions will be handled.
