The Happiest Kid on Campus by Harlan Cohen

Author:Harlan Cohen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2010-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

TIP #11

HOMESICKNESS

The Cure Isn’t at Home

The Tip

The best thing a parent can say when you feel homesick is to tell you a day that you will get to see your family again. This helps because whenever you feel homesick you just keep remembering that you will see them all soon. Telling them to “imagine that I’m there with my arms around you” doesn’t.

The Story

I was very nervous about going to school, because the only time I had been away from home for a long period of time was a two-week sleepover camp. The whole time I was miserable and homesick. This experience led me to believe that I would be homesick every day while at school. I was very surprised to find that school felt like home for the majority of the time. However, every Sunday morning I would feel homesick. This is because Sunday is normally the day that my family and I would be together for the whole day. During these Sundays I would get really upset and call home, and sometimes that made it worse, or sometimes it made it better. My friends knew I felt this way, and they would usually plan something for us to do on Sundays, like see a movie or go shopping. This definitely helped me take my mind off of it. Another thing that helped was when my parents would remind me of when I would see them again. I am now a sophomore, and I don’t get homesick anymore. Although thinking about my return home and doing activities helped, I think time is the best way to fight homesickness.

—Sarah B., sophomore, University of Delaware

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