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EducationDynamics Offers Tips to Manage the Changing Tide of Parent-Student Relationships When Students Return Home for the Holidays
Leading Provider of Parent-Focused Engagement Tools Provides Crucial Information for Colleges to Facilitate Effective Student-Parent Communication During Winter Break
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HOBOKEN, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 12/09/08 -- With curfews no longer in place, a new sociallife and a fresh sense of independence, college can serve as a turningpoint for parent-student relationships, a relational shift that becomeslargely apparent when students return home for the holidays. Colleges anduniversities can help parents better navigate their child's return home byoffering proven advice provided by EducationDynamics, higher education'sleading marketing provider dedicated to helping institutions find, enrolland retainstudents.
Recognizing that parents are more involved than ever before in the lives oftheir students, EducationDynamics offers a suite ofprograms designed specifically to help institutions build strongalliances with parents. As holiday student homecomings loom, the provisionof information pertaining to relationship management between parents andtheir freshly independent children gains particular importance.EducationDynamics provides several strategies that colleges anduniversities can offer parents to help them better manage the changingrelational dynamic with their student while home for the holidays:
1. Ease curfew restrictions. Parents should remember that their child hasbeen making his or her own choices, and should not expect their child toreturn to pre-college curfew expectations.
2. Give students time to catch up with friends. Spending time with highschool friends is an important component of a student's return home.Additionally, parents should recognize that their child may want time tohim or herself.
3. Curb the parental instinct to worry. A parent's natural impulse is tobe concerned about their child. However, this behavior can be interpretedby students as mistrust or a lack of confidence. Parents should reinforcetheir confidence in their son or daughter as they express their concerns.
4. Expect change. It is natural and inevitable that college students, aswell as the parents they leave at home, will change as a result of theirnew living situations. Recognizing and accepting these new differences canstrengthen the bond parents have with their child.
"EducationDynamics' parent-centric programs seek to keep today'shighly-invested parent informed and engaged, providing not only criticalcampus communications, but also tips on managing the relational aspectsbetween parents and their college students," says Peter Tomassi, seniorvice president of product development for the Enrollment and RetentionServices Division of EducationDynamics. "Among parents of first-yearstudents, parents participate in EducationDynamics' engagement programs ata rate 30 to 70 percent higher than they do through traditionalcommunications vehicles, such as parent newsletters and email campaigns."
To learn more about how universities can help parents stage drama-freestudent homecomings and manage the changing dynamics of the parent-studentrelationship, contact Tracy Howe by phone at 201.377.3318 or via email.
About EducationDynamics
EducationDynamics, a portfolio company of Halyard Capital, is the leadingmarketing and information services company dedicated to helping highereducation institutions find, enroll and retain students. Its content-richand highly visible education websites, including EarnMyDegree.com,eLearners.com, GradSchools.com, StudyAbroad.com and its more than 50special interest microsites, make EducationDynamics the premier provider ofqualified prospective students for colleges and universities. In addition,the company offers a full suite of Web-delivered services proven to driveenrollment growth and reduce student attrition. For more information, visithttp://www.educationdynamics.com.
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1. Ease curfew restrictions. Parents should remember that their child hasbeen making his or her own choices, and should not expect their child toreturn to pre-college curfew expectations.
2. Give students time to catch up with friends. Spending time with highschool friends is an important component of a student's return home.Additionally, parents should recognize that their child may want time tohim or herself.
3. Curb the parental instinct to worry. A parent's natural impulse is tobe concerned about their child. However, this behavior can be interpretedby students as mistrust or a lack of confidence. Parents should reinforcetheir confidence in their son or daughter as they express their concerns.
4. Expect change. It is natural and inevitable that college students, aswell as the parents they leave at home, will change as a result of theirnew living situations. Recognizing and accepting these new differences canstrengthen the bond parents have with their child.
"EducationDynamics' parent-centric programs seek to keep today'shighly-invested parent informed and engaged, providing not only criticalcampus communications, but also tips on managing the relational aspectsbetween parents and their college students," says Peter Tomassi, seniorvice president of product development for the Enrollment and RetentionServices Division of EducationDynamics. "Among parents of first-yearstudents, parents participate in EducationDynamics' engagement programs ata rate 30 to 70 percent higher than they do through traditionalcommunications vehicles, such as parent newsletters and email campaigns."
To learn more about how universities can help parents stage drama-freestudent homecomings and manage the changing dynamics of the parent-studentrelationship, contact Tracy Howe by phone at 201.377.3318 or via email.
About EducationDynamics
EducationDynamics, a portfolio company of Halyard Capital, is the leadingmarketing and information services company dedicated to helping highereducation institutions find, enroll and retain students. Its content-richand highly visible education websites, including EarnMyDegree.com,eLearners.com, GradSchools.com, StudyAbroad.com and its more than 50special interest microsites, make EducationDynamics the premier provider ofqualified prospective students for colleges and universities. In addition,the company offers a full suite of Web-delivered services proven to driveenrollment growth and reduce student attrition. For more information, visithttp://www.educationdynamics.com.
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Contact:Nikki Martin303.433.7020Email Contact
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