The Importance of Parent Visits

Jorge Castillo

When most students enroll in college, they are faced with the dilemma of living far from home. In these cases, parents are the ones most worried about their kids and the ones that suffer the most from this separation. After watching your kid grow and seeing him every day of your life, suddenly being miles apart is very difficult for most parents to deal with. Occasional campus visits may help relief parents that their kids are safe and are doing good in school. But along parents, students also benefit from these visits since they get to see that their parents care for them and are there support them in any matter.

Being away from home is many times a difficult thing to deal with. When students who enroll in college decide to live on campus, they leave all their friends, family, and everything they possessed behind to start a new life. They are forced to adapt to a new place and a new system which will not always be so pleasant. One has to make the best of it and in the toughest times, a call from people back home can make the worst of days a little better. A simple phone call has the power to remind students that they still have people caring for them, hoping for their success, and waiting for them back home.

Even so, after a couple of months in college, there is nothing more reassuring than a surprise visit from your parents and siblings. As Michele Van Pelt, journalist of Helium, state that parents are the most important ingredient in overcoming homesickness and adapting to college life. Parents have the ability to reach their sons and daughters, calm their fears, and reassure them that college is another step in life which must be accomplished in order to have a successful future.

A couple of visits through the school year will only strengthen the parent-son/daughter relationship and will give students and parents time to catch up on things back home and at college. It also provides an opportunity for parents to see how well their kids are doing in college and for the students to feel a sense of comfort that nobody has forgotten them.