College tuition can send a chill down any parent's back.
Life's ups and downs sometime get in the way of parents' perfectly good intentions to save money for their children's education. Even if you never had the opportunity to attend college, there are more financial options available than ever before to bring a college degree within reach. But if junior is growing a goatee and yearning to move out, it will be more difficult to amass enough cash to pull it off in time. Parents finding themselves in the latter situation are not alone. In my 15-plus years of experience in financial aid, I'm also finding that not many people plan and save money for a college education.