After a long, stressful semester, we're all happy to FINALLY be home from school and happy to be spending time with our families. For many families, your return home from school will be a fun time to catch up on whatever has been happening at school.The holiday season is one of the best of the year. It is known as the season to be happy and spend time with family, friends, and loved ones. Another good thing is that you get to catch up with all of your old high school friends that you haven't seen since the final days of summer.

While most of us are used to having freedom to do just about whatever we want, by the end of the first semester, many college freshmen are used to coming and going as they please, living of their own, and making their own decisions, and the biggest challenge is being back under their parents' roof with certain expectations. You can't be blasting music at three o'clock in the morning, or strolling into the house at four o'clock in the morning like you most likely have at school.

However, parents also have to adjust to us being home. They most definitely missed us, so they are eager to see us. Finding the first opportunity to spend time with them with calm them down.

Experiencing complications with your parents while you're home is not something that any college student wants to deal with while home for the holidays.

Here are some tips for college students who are coming home:

1. If you want to be seen as an adult, act like one. Pitching a fit, demanding your freedom, and acting like the house is your private room are not adult behaviors.

2. Understand that your parents and siblings are humans too and they will be hurt if you choose your friends over them. Spend time with family and friends, and think about how you can do both.

3. You are returning to your house, but you are an adult now, and adults pick up the slack. Don't be ashamed to do more while you are at home. Your parents have cooked and cleaned for you most of your life. Now is a good time to pay it back. Keep your room tidy, offer to fix a meal, or do some yard work, laundry, etc. Show off how much you have grown while away.

4. Understand that from this point on in your relationship with your parents can be based on mutual respect, not control. Your parents are most likely worried that they did not raise you well and they may have annoying ways of asking if they did a good job. Respect them and show them you turned out OK.