advice from the parents network

There's this parents listserve at Kalei's college which I signed up for. There are days it's overwhelming--when I come home to 30 emails from the network, or when a round of scolding breaks out about, of all things, too many emails from the parents network-- but for the most part it has brought useful and friendly information and experiences. Here are a few resources offered in response to my question about stages of adjustment that college students (and their parents) go through during the first year:

Freshman year in 5 stages:

from Champlain College website

http://www.champlain.edu/portals/parents/five.php

(cut and paste this into your browser, can't make it a live link for some reason...)

Stages freshman go through during their first year (or so): Advice to college professors on the subject. article is 20 years old, but it still seems timely to me

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:XmsPeL3j76IJ:www.irc.uci.edu/TRG/PDF/02_%2520Meet%2520the%2520UCI%2520Student/Adjustment_Stages_for_Incoming_%2520Freshmen.pdf+stages+of+college+adjustment&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

For parents on letting go:

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/670

Empty Nest Syndrome: a British doctor's advice to mums...love the lingo.
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/womenshealth/features/ens.htm

On stages parents go through, one parent wrote:

I was thinking......broke, poor, destitute for the parent stages! :)

Recommended Books: I'm currently reading Letting Go, and it's great...recommended by multiple sources; haven't read the others.

Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years, Fourth Edition
Karen Levin Coburn & Madge Lawrence Treeger (bought used on Amazon.com). Note: Be sure to order the 4th edition.

Empty Nest ... Full Heart: The Journey from Home to College
Andrea Van Steenhouse

Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years [Paperback]
Helen E. Johnson & Christine Schelhas-Miller. Note: this one has scripts to help parents through every kind of issue, concern, emergency, not just
with freshmen but also older students.

anything to add, dear readers...?