5. Sending Your Child off to College with Wife and Mom of Four – Stephanie Chen, Esq.

Mom to 4 children (ages 18, 15, 13, and 11) and Chief Legal Officer and Chief Culture Officer for ChenMed, Stephanie Chen, J.D., shares her wisdom and insights for navigating the tender transition of sending your child off to college, especially with still having 3 children at home.

• Make the milestones significant

• Use and embrace technology

• Help your younger kids connect with the one who left for college

• Allow yourself to grieve

• Ask for advice and let others help you

• Let yourself sit in the hard; it’s ok to be sad

• Invite community, even if it’s awkward

Stephanie and I talk about some fabulous resources and tools:

• The Road Back to You

• All the Light We Cannot See

• Where the Crawdads Sing

• Memoirs of a Geisha

• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – book and show

• BeReal app

• Digital Message Board to Display Texts

• Figure out your love language by getting this book

• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (PS: Stephanie and I recorded our conversation before episode 4 with Drea was released – how incredible that this is such a transformative book for both of them and that they don’t know each other!)

Want to talk about life as a mom sending your kiddo off to college?

Email Stephanie at steph@chenmed.com  

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