Our conversation with you is now drawing to a close, but we know that yours continues.
We hope that the advice and activities we’ve offered here will be of benefit to you and your child as they move forward into their second, third, and fourth years of college, as well as beyond into work and career, and on from there, perhaps, to graduate school.
We also hope that what you’ve learned here will be of benefit to younger children, as you, perhaps, begin the College Conversation anew in the years ahead.
And most of all, we hope that you will take a moment to reflect on all the ground you and your child have covered together.
We leave you now not with a final exercise—there’s no reason to reach for a legal pad, spreadsheet, or Google Doc—but with a few parting words of reassurance, to help carry you through these next few months and years:
You will know what to do.