![]() What am I supposed to do? What do I do with my life? This is what I’ve thought I wanted this whole time!” “I came as a Pre-Med major I’m realizing I’m failing my core classes in that major. We haven’t spoken in a week,” or “Hey, Hanna, you know, I’ve always wanted to be a nurse. ![]() Each week, I would get two to three emails from that group of 12-really basic, common things: “Hanna, my roommate and I are not getting along. ![]() I graduated my first group of high school girls-they are off at college. I never found what I wanted and, in the back of my mind, I thought, “Maybe I could write that book someday.” Now, fast-forward just a little bit. I had girls who weren’t “all in” yet so I didn’t want to give them a book that would be, maybe, toxic to them, or just too Christian. I didn’t want it dripping in Christian-ese. Of course, there are so many books out there!-but I was looking for something specifically practical/easy to read, but biblically-based. I graduated my first crop of girls, and I wanted to find a book that would help prepare them for the issues I knew they would be facing. send them off to college with that foundational knowledge. I wanted to try to help prepare high school girls to really understand why they believe what they believe: “Can they articulate the gospel?”. I’d been working on a college campus for a few years, in a full-time role. Hanna: -a “student development professional.”īob: -“professional.” There you go that’s right.īob: Is that what we called counselors back in the day?-is that what it is? Okay alright.ĭennis: Anyway, you’ve done this both on the college campus but you were also doing it with high school students. This is rooted in biblical principles.” They were all over it!ĭennis: Okay go back to the start of how you wrote this book, because you work on college campuses and are a-how did we put that before?-a “professional development”. ![]() They kept bringing it up-they would say: “Well, faith is really important to you. Hanna: It was a blast!-fastest three-and-a-half minutes of my life!ĭennis: And did they let you talk about your faith? Great job on this book, by the way.ĭennis: You were on Fox & Friends right? She has written a book called The College Girl’s Survival Guide. Well, we’ve got a friend here, Hanna Seymour, who’s a friend of Laura’s, my daughter. So we’re trying to help moms and dads-particularly, if they have daughters who are about to head off to college-I’ve got to tell you-if I was about to release a daughter to college, I would want to wrap her up in bubble wrap-you know what I’m saying? I would want to send her off, cocooned up and protected, and make sure that somebody was following her around the whole time-that she didn’t get into any trouble.ĭennis: And, Bob, I’d want those vests that the police officers wear.ĭennis: Bubble wrap? Forget bubble wrap!-put Kevlar around her. Stay with us.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. There are some key strategies that your daughter can employ as she heads to college this fall that will help her college experience be really good. Our host is Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. Do not take it personally.īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, July 24 th. Know that most people are not good at this most people are not going to pursue you. If you walk around campus / whatever the activities that you enjoy doing-grab some other people to go with you, and start pursuing people. If you work out every week, ask people to go work out with you. Hanna: Pursuing people means asking them out to coffee / asking them to lunch. She can either be really lonely or, Hanna Seymour says, she can start pursuing friendships. Bob: As your daughter heads to college this fall, she faces a couple of options.
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