When the Challenge of College or University Comes Home to Roost….

We are almost a month into school.

For those who have entered college or university, those students are just coming to face the extent of their academic challenges.

Some will rise, some will fall.

Parents will concern themselves greatly for those students in distress. For many, academic and social issues will not be new or unknown.

For many it will create hardship and conflict.

Do know that life does not and should not end with or without academic achievement.

This may be a time for student and parents to take stock and reconsider options better attuned to interests and true capacities.

This may also be a time to take stock and address any issues of mental health and/or drug use or addictions.

Don’t fight.

Instead, explore.

Come to terms with what is, not what ought to be.

When we address what is, then something may be achieved. Perhaps not what one first sought, but something necessary in order to then move forward, which may be towards a new direction.

Don’t fight.

Explore.

Support that.

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Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters. Gary is the host of the TV reality show, Newlywed, Nearly Dead, former parenting columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and author of Marriage Rescue: Overcoming the ten deadly sins in failing relationships. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.