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Title: Empty Nest ... Full Heart: The Journey from Home to College by Andrea Van Steenhouse ISBN: 0-9619806-2-1 Publisher: Simpler Life Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Empty Nest, Full Heart
Comment: I found the support I was longing for by reading Empty Nest...Full Heart. I read Andrea Van Steenhouse's book a few years ago after hearing her interviewed on public radio. Now, as my daughter completes her senior year, I am reviewing it again for support again. As a personal/professional coach, I am leading book discussions for parents who are getting ready for the transition of "sending my child to college." If's full of realism, tears, and laughter...not that different from our of journey of parenthood.
Barbara Wulf MS, CPCC
Personal & Professional Coach
Beckon Call

Rating: 5
Summary: A cover to cover page turner
Comment: After going away to college and looking back on this book, I have nothing but good things to say about it. A must read for any parent with a child going away to school.

Rating: 3
Summary: A self-biased and negative perpective
Comment: I just completed Empty Nest ... Full Heart. I found some practical advice but was bewildered by story after story from parents whose relationship with their HS senior was less than desirable. It seems a slanted perspective. After reading her advice to "Stay away from parents whose kids are perfect," it makes sense that despite her intention to inform, she only reflected upon the experiences of parents who didn't quite keep the lines of communication open and rewarding.

Raising a student who is communicative is the result of having an awareness and steadfast discipline of putting the student's needs at the same level as the parents' for the 18 years he/she lives at home. A "perfect kid" is a kid whose needs are met.

Van Steenhouse didn't think her audience wanted to read about freshmen who returned home for Thanksgiving to have rewarding dialogue with family, or who were grateful to return to the fold of nurturance. And while there may be plenty of examples of freshmen who return home for Thanksgiving feeling more unsettled than at-home, it is not a balanced account.

I invite her to open her heart to parents who have succeeded in having rewarding relationships with their HS seniors and college freshmen. Such parents should be applauded not alienated.

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