Resources for Parents and Family Members

Checklists

Checklist for Parents/Family Members

Family Member Checklist

Articles

• It’s the Skills that Count: Helping Your Kids Acquire the Skills Employers Want
• 5 Ways to be a Great Career Coach to Your Son or Daughter
• 7 Ways to Help Your Child Find the Path that Fits
• Address Your Biases to Become a Better Parent Career Coach
• 6 Ways to Learn About Majors
• Helping Your Child Make Informed Career Decisions
• The Parent Career Coach’s (Quick) Guide to Helpful Questioning

Books

The Parent’s Crash Course in Career Planning: Helping You College Student Succeed by Marcia Harris & Sharon Jones, NTC Publishing Group, 2007

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Majoring in Success: Building Your Career While Still in College by Anthony Arcieri & Marianne E. Green, Octameron Associates, 1999

Major in Success: Make college Easier, Fire Up Your Dreams, and Get a Very Cool Job, Fourth Edition by Patrick Combs & Jack Canfield, Ten Speed Press, 2003

What Color is Your Parachute 2006: A Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career by Richard Bolles, Ten Speed Press, 2005

You’re On Your Own (But I’m Here if You need Me): Mentoring Your Child During the College Years by Marjorie Savage, Simon & Schuster, 2003

Don’t Tell Me What to do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years by Helen E. Johnson & Christine Schelhas-Miller, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000

Letting Go: A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College Years, Fourth Edition by Karen Levin-Coburn & Madge Lawrence-Treeger, Quill, 2003

Empty Nest, Full Heart: The Journey from Home to College, Second Edition, by Andrea Van Steenhouse & Johanna Parker, Simpler Life Press, 1998

When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parents’ Survival Guide by Carol Barkin, Avon, 1999

The Myth of Maturity: What Teenagers Need From Parents to Become Adults by Terri Apter, W.W. Norton & Company, 2002

Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teen Through the Twenties by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Oxford University Press, 2004

How to Get Any Job With Any Major: Career Launch & Re-Launch for Everyone Under Thirty or (How to Avoid Living in Your Parent’s Basement) by Donald Asher, Ten Speed Press, 2004