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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Lots of great suggestions.

I think the key is just to initiate the conversation and to give explicit permission for your child to tell you if they fail or are not okay. Let them know it will be a challenge to work through but you will support them through it. Keep having this conversation every year. Encourage them to use academic and counseling services on their campus that can also offer support. Although at my college, the counseling services are so overworked that there are long waiting lists to see someone.

This post was the result of these conversations I have been having including one where I spoke with a young woman (a junior) a couple weeks ago who was failing a course. She failed because her stress and anxiety was compounding over the semester and was so high she wasn't eating or sleeping. She had never had anxiety before and didn't know what happened to her. She also didn't know how to talk about failure as she hadn't failed before. She told me she is really close to her family, talks to them multiple times a week and that her dad is basically her best friend..but that as far as they know, everything is fine, other than she is stressed about her roommate. She was having suicidal thoughts and in desperate need of support but didn't know how to start that conversation with them.

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