If you're flying to drop your kid at school, how long are you staying?

[Anonymous]

depends if the college has any programming for parents or not

[Anonymous]

We drove long-distance, but arrived the day before move-in. Ran errands (DS had forgotten his deodorant, his pillow, his razor, his water bottle…) and had dinner. The next day was about running out the clock before afternoon move-in with easy, entertaining activities that weren’t mentally taxing. We went to lunch, wandered through a museum, just did chill touristy things.

Helped move stuff in, gave hugs and got out when it got crowded. After that, DS was off and running with his orientation group. We stayed overnight and went home the next day because of drive time, but didn’t come back to see DS again after move-in.

It’s like preschool dropoff — kiss and goodbye at the door. Don’t linger and make it weird and hard. (It’s hard enough!)

[Anonymous]

We flew in early. Played tourist in the area, moved him in, went home the next day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:depends if the college has any programming for parents or not

This

[Anonymous]

We are doing 4 nights. Our flight doesn't not get in until 10PM on Wednesday. The next day we will pickup some last minute items. The issue is that we don't know if our kid gets to move in until Friday or Saturday. They won't tell us until the beginning of July, If she moves in on Friday, my spouse and I will do some touristy things and then have a nice dinner out.

[Anonymous]

Good plan