Here’s Your Permission to Invest in Academic Coaching

Are you familiar with the following dance? You lean in to offer guidance to your struggling college student, and sensing your support is not well received, you step away. You want to respect their independence, but wonder if you’re doing enough. Or maybe too much? What if they aren’t meeting the potential you know they have? The potential you so clearly see in them? If you’ve known the tension of this awkward back and forth of genuinely wanting to help but not wanting to come across as pushy, you are not alone! 

Statistics show that student retention at the college level is a continuing problem. This means that keeping your student in school (and successful at that) requires more than just helping them with schoolwork and timelines. Your best approach is to lean on professionals. Academic Coaching takes the pressure off of having to navigate the push/pull cycle, and offers both you and your student the space needed to enjoy your relationship! 

Breaking Away from the Awkward Dance

Here are 3 ways in which investing in Academic Coaching can help you break away from the awkward dance of trying to help and not harm:  

1. By giving you a break from a frustrating dynamic. We know the struggle is real. We SEE you. There is no world in which you want to come across as overbearing or pushy, but that’s how your student may be perceiving you. Some of that is just the nature of the parent/child relationship, and Academic Coaching helps eliminate those dynamics.
2. By giving your student the opportunity to own their academic journey and to gain independence. Let’s be honest, as much as our kids need our help at age 2 or age 42, we can’t always be there. At Your Academic Coach, our goal is to help students gain independence in the way they approach crucial life skills such as improved executive functioning, project organization, and task prioritization.
3. By getting back the relationship you really want with them. Imagine taking some of the energy and stress you’ve been exerting on trying to help your student and using it to do something to care for yourself. It will only lead to you being able to be more present and better able to enjoy your student.  

If you’ve been looking for permission to invest in Academic Coaching, here it is! Click here to find out more about how we can help!