So, what can you do? Well, I don’t know if there are any YouTube how to’s on this challenge. You could try to see if you can find something that you can have your daughter watch. Given what I had learned some twenty years ago one would think there must be something.

I do feel that a careful conversation with your daughter should take place. A careful conversation would be to do your best not to put down the boyfriend because his attention is giving her a sense of power in an otherwise vulnerable state that many do struggle with the first year of college.

It’s more important your daughter know this anxiety about college this freshman year is normal. That she needs to learn how to navigate and try not to give up because all that does is take away some important lessons that become important contributions to developing good life skills.