Sorority Parents Blog

I have been musing over this for a while.    For collegians, springtime means the lining up of summer jobs and internships.  So here is what I have been thinking about:  if I ran a business and I was considering two applicants (only one being a sorority member) with similar academic qualifications for a particular Read the Rest…

I miss my college daughter the most when holidays are a part of our daily round and she is not here to celebrate with us.   We will make our traditional Valentine’s Day sugar cookies and below are two of our family favorites.   One is a softer ‘cake-like’ cookie and the other a firm cut out Read the Rest…

Reading Jane Heiserman’s blogs on navigating the Out-Of-State Obstacle Course have been entertaining and enlightening!  They also gave me fodder for this next blog for those of us who have daughters attending college nearby. The nature of this circumstance is different so worth commenting on. The question jumping out so quickly? How do you set Read the Rest…

When you were a child, did you pour over Children’s Highlights when you paid a visit to the pediatrician? Remember “Goofus and Gallant”?  Goofus did everything wrong, and Gallant did everything right.   Well, when my daughter’s freshman year ended, and it was time to move her belongings from California back to Texas, we did everything Read the Rest…

In watching Mary Claire navigate through this first college semester, it has become clear to me that she has developed some wonderful networks and mentoring relationships, mostly in her experiences with older Delta Gammas and her interactions with her honors program advisors.  It made me want to share my thoughts on peer mentoring with all Read the Rest…

It has been a few weeks since my daughter was initiated into Delta Gamma and it still hasn’t quite set in yet that we are now sisters in such a special group of women.  I hadn’t been to our sorority initiation since the mid-1980s when I was living in the sorority house. Somehow, my advising Read the Rest…

When a family lives in Texas and the daughter attends school in California, there are challenges all over the place.  Using the next several mini-blogs, I thought I’d present some obstacles parents face when a daughter attends an out-of-state college, and how we’ve coped. Birthdays.  This is a good place to start.  During Holly’s freshman Read the Rest…

A Parent’s  Adjustment Okay…so my last blog focused on my daughter and the challenging path she was on trying to make her way…then I got a bit egocentric after sitting at the dinner table with all men listening to their  “not to be repeated” banter who owned who on the football field…yadayadayada… and I started Read the Rest…

We received a question from a parent wondering the proper flowers to send to her daughter for sorority initiation. If you would like to send flowers, the 26 NPC organizations’ flowers, colors, and history are located at npcwomen.org.  A card or phone call would be a welcome alternative to congratulate any new initiate.

Tough Student Transitions… Sorority life in the fall is full of theme parties and football games…homecoming displays and parades…philanthropies and big/little sister revelations…inspiration week…So many incredible opportunities for my daughter to forge friendships and relieve a bit of academic stress. Yet, I had forgotten just how overwhelming and lonely that first semester of college can Read the Rest…