Daughter with cold feet. Please help

Marian
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:16:06 +0000

The worst thing that could happen on an overnight is that she could decide, “If this is what going away to college is like, I don’t want to do it.”

If the student wants to do an overnight, that’s one thing. But shy, quiet people often don’t. An overnight is a sleepover with strangers. Shy people tend not to enjoy such situations.

It might be very difficult for a shy pre-freshman to separate out her unpleasant feelings about the “sleepover with strangers” aspect of the overnight from whatever feelings she might have about the particular college she’s visiting.