College "Moms" Service Provider

[Anonymous]

Most schools have a service like this.

[Anonymous]

There are local moms who have offered this type of services in the parents’ FB group for my son’s university.

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To the OP, you should have kept your kid closer to home. This way, you could have delivered homemade cookies yourself. My kids would have been horrified if I hired someone to deliver food to their room. If they are sick, send them to the health center.

[Anonymous]

Its a great business model.

You could make a killing at some schools....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a big thing at Wash U

+1 and Emory

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Anonymous wrote:OMG! You all are raising a generation of snowflakes.

This. I'm a very nurturing mom, but a "moms" service provider...for college kids?! Sounds like an SNL skit!

Exactly. I do most everything but at some point, cut the cord.

Send your kid with enough medicine or have it delivered. You can mail food.

Eh. Its probably just for the first year/adjustment. Its not like you are doing this when they are 25.....its fine as a transition.

I hated being on my own with absolutely zero support when I was 18. Cried/miserable/lonely and sick. Don't wish that on my kids. But yes, slowly transition away from the hovering.

As a parent, if your kid is sick, you go out there and take care of them. I am very much a hovering parent but no way I'd pay someone as its my job.

If your college kid is sick with the vast majority of illnesses, you keep in touch, have then go to the health center, and send them some care packages. If they are very, very sick, you go and bring them home. I can't think of the illness that would require me to go to my college kid and take care of her, but wouldn;t require that I bring her home.

Good lord.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG! You all are raising a generation of snowflakes.

This. I'm a very nurturing mom, but a "moms" service provider...for college kids?! Sounds like an SNL skit!

Exactly. I do most everything but at some point, cut the cord.

Send your kid with enough medicine or have it delivered. You can mail food.

Eh. Its probably just for the first year/adjustment. Its not like you are doing this when they are 25.....its fine as a transition.

I hated being on my own with absolutely zero support when I was 18. Cried/miserable/lonely and sick. Don't wish that on my kids. But yes, slowly transition away from the hovering.

As a parent, if your kid is sick, you go out there and take care of them. I am very much a hovering parent but no way I'd pay someone as its my job.

You don't say.

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Anonymous wrote:I read through this. The only help I thought was needed was for the hospitalized child. If my child were hospitalized, I'd try to be in town.

If you text your child, you can help them with small things over the Internet.

It didn't surprise me to see that Penn State was on the list of places where this was available. Penn State was full of sheltered suburbanites when I went there for a year. The kind of people who have trouble taking a city bus.

Amazon prime brings everything. I hurt my ear at 10 p.m. at night. I thought about taking my neurotic self to a GP the next day. Instead I ordered a digital otoscope that connects to my phone. It arrived at 10 AM the next day. Likely sooner than I could have seen GP. All fine.
Gift packages are equally available on the internet. Although I'm not sure if delivery to dorm is efficient.

Be sure your kid wants this help.

Where did you end up after a year?

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Anonymous wrote:OMG! You all are raising a generation of snowflakes.

This. I'm a very nurturing mom, but a "moms" service provider...for college kids?! Sounds like an SNL skit!

Exactly. I do most everything but at some point, cut the cord.

Send your kid with enough medicine or have it delivered. You can mail food.

Eh. Its probably just for the first year/adjustment. Its not like you are doing this when they are 25.....its fine as a transition.

I hated being on my own with absolutely zero support when I was 18. Cried/miserable/lonely and sick. Don't wish that on my kids. But yes, slowly transition away from the hovering.

As a parent, if your kid is sick, you go out there and take care of them. I am very much a hovering parent but no way I'd pay someone as its my job.

If your college kid is sick with the vast majority of illnesses, you keep in touch, have then go to the health center, and send them some care packages. If they are very, very sick, you go and bring them home. I can't think of the illness that would require me to go to my college kid and take care of her, but wouldn;t require that I bring her home.

Good lord.

+1 My DD got pretty sick the first week of college but was able to manage between the health center and college student services. I did call the student services office for her because I thought somebody should know she was missing orientation and to check on health center info. This is a small college and they jumped in to make sure she had OTC meds, had food delivered, etc. (at a larger school that didn't have that kind of personal support, I probably would just have used instacart to get her what she needed). Later that semester she got covid and came home for a week.

My friend used a "college mom" service for her DD who was going to an OOS college, exclusively to help with move in. They were able to ship things from Amazon to the woman's home and then she delivered them during her move-in time. That seems like a practical service.

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Send care packages. You don't need to pay someone to bring them cookies.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking for a local mom or sitter in the area to check in on my kid periodically, home cooked goodies for exams, bring medicine when sick etc.
Where can I find something like MindyKNOWS for Cornell?
https://mindyknows.com/

Should I post on a local site?

Cost is not an issue. Happy to pay a monthly fee.

Btw, I think this is a huge business opportunity....

"Business opportunity"??? Holy crap. Y'all don't even see what you are doing to your kids. Just stop. Repeat after me: College is a time to LEARN and GROW. What are you going to do when they get to their workplace? Hand deliver their lunch? Do their job for them? Listen to yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:oh god the poor future wives

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It’s boys that will lean on this service more than girls

[Anonymous]

This is the most cringe/pathetic post I've read in a LONG time!

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Anonymous wrote:This is a big thing at Wash U

+1 and Emory

I wonder what Tulane, washu, and Emory have in common

NP. Sorry I’m clueless but - what exactly?

Is the point that they’re in the South?

[Anonymous]

I would not use this for my neurotypical kid but now considering it for my ASD kid.