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Preparing For Parent's Weekend

Tips for survival.

Cait Przetak
Sep 20, 2016
Coastal Carolina University
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Although there are numerous laws and acts that have been put in place to allow students the right over their academia in college, there's one thing that the universities couldn't pass up – parents weekend. Ahh parents. The ones we miss seeing each time we opened that front door. The ones who yelled at us for using our cell phones at the dinner table. The ones who nagged us to 'do more' in our classes and get away from the television. The ones who wouldn't let you out of the house unless we gave them the place we were going to, how long we planned on being there, and the social security numbers of each person you would be with. But as much as they got on our backs, we missed them dearly. So to show them how thankful we are for them to come to our college and check in, here's a few things to do to prepare you for their arrival and time staying...

1. Clean your room.

We all know it's gonna be the first place your parents go when they enter your house or dorm.

2. Wipe down your bathroom.


Dad's probably gonna have to use it after mom white gloves it.

3. Remove the alcohol and drug paraphernalia from plain sight.


No, it's not decor in their eyes, it's alcoholism.

4. Be sure to lock all of you technological devices.

They can't pass up a chance to see the specifics of how 'great' all of your courses are going.

5. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT wear what you would to the bars or frat parties out to a nice dinner with your parents.


Cover it up, Mama and Papa Bear don't need to see that, show them the serious student and adult that you can be.

6. Go through talking points and off limit stories with your roomies/best friends they will be meeting.

Let's be honest, you want to stay in school, right?

7. Be prepared for childhood stories that you never wanted to be relayed onto someone not by blood.


It may be their job to embarrass us, but it's our jobs to deflect from the end of story reactions.

8. Just try and remember, parents weekend is just that, a weekend.

It'll be over before you know it and soon you'll be back to missing the heck out of them while having a messy room.

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