How To Handle College Students Returning Home During The COVID-19 Outbreak

2020-03-23

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Think it's tough having little kids at home during the coronavirus outbreak? Try having college students back unexpectedly. It's a huge transition for students and parents. Kellie Randle is an expert in navigating parenting college kids. Her popular Instagram page, Empty Nest Mom Life, offers tips for parents whose kids have left the nest. Now, however, those kids are returning to the nest in a time that's overwhelming, scary and downright maddening for families making a huge adjustment to daily life. On this...

Think it's tough having little kids at home during the coronavirus outbreak? Try having college students back unexpectedly. It's a huge transition for students and parents.

Kellie Randle is an expert in navigating parenting college kids. Her popular Instagram page, Empty Nest Mom Life, offers tips for parents whose kids have left the nest.

Now, however, those kids are returning to the nest in a time that's overwhelming, scary and downright maddening for families making a huge adjustment to daily life.

On this Dying to Ask:

How Kellie rapidly adjusted to having three adult children return to her downsized home
Why empathy may be your best tool in the days following their return home
How she set up "spaces" around the house so that she, her kids and her husband can work and study
And, she encourages us to look for the silver lining in forced together time

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