Preparing To Send A Kid To College

As I prepare to send child #2 to college, I dusted off these tips I wrote when my first born went off.  They are still relevant today, but a friend's experience with her child this past spring inspired me to add this important one - make sure you have the number of the 24 hour campus security  so that, God forbid, in the middle of the night you can get directly to someone at the school if your child is in distress for any reason. Below is part one of my three blog series, published August 2010. 

Part 1: http://leewoodruff.squarespace.com/blog/2010/8/11/preparing-to-send-a-kid-to-college-part-1.html