Sorority Parents Blog

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…

We received a question from a parent wondering what sorority membership dues cover. Here is some general information about the kinds of things those dues support. Each campus sorority will have slightly different membership dues based often on the size of their operations and the needs of the campus’ Greek community.  Usually separate from fees Read the Rest…

The way I see it, my role as “academic enhancement enchantress” expired the minute my daughter got an acceptance letter from the college of her choice.  I gleefully tendered my resignation from the text books – exams - group projects – report cards cheer squad.  There must be loads of moms (kind moms, patient moms) out Read the Rest…

I am not planning on hovering over Mary Claire by any means and am a believer in the healthy launching of these incredibly capable young human beings. However, Sunday evening as I turned in for the evening, I received a ‘goodnight’ text from Mary Claire. I imagine she was lonely in that dorm room by herself and being able to connect briefly with her made us both get a better night sleep. The adventure begins tomorrow…