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Anonymous
Because boarding school students are children. College students are adults. |
Anonymous
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My parents would have laughed in my face.
At 18, you get all the fun plus all the responsibilities. |
Anonymous
| This whole scenario reminds me of Sex and the City. Charlotte's husband Trey, who had a weirdly intimate relationship with his mother. She was there at all times to care for Trey's boo-boo's. |
Anonymous
This made me laugh. My grandpa learned how to cook and use a sewing machine and was pretty non-sexist for a successful exec with a stay-at-home wife. However, when he was in grad school in the 1930s, he sent his laundry home on the train from Urbana to Cleveland for his college-educated SAHM mother to do and return to him by train. Women really need to be careful about how children are raised and with what expectations. |
Anonymous
Yeah I’m trying to imagine my parents’ reaction to this… this would not be well received. I ran out of spending money my freshman year (because I was making idiotic spending decisions) and my parents were like: your problem! have fun figuring that out! So I just dealt with it until payday for my “work-study” job at a campus cafe, serving pizza to my classmates! |
Anonymous
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Bizarre thread, though I have seen some "care package delivery moms" post on Facebook.
The bummer is that I could picture a poor/working class kid taking on the job of delivering cold medicine to a privileged kid because the money means something to them. |
Anonymous
I think that had a lot more to do with how people did laundry in the 1930s. It’s not like he would have had access to a washer/dryer where he lived, or even a laundromat. The clothes would have been sent out for washing either way. |
Anonymous
Isn’t that a really different thing though? Those USNA kids are being put through a LOT. It’s not a typical first year away from home for college age kids. Giving them a safe and comfortable spot away from school makes sense. For normal college kids this sounds ridiculous though. |
Anonymous
| This we question made me laugh. I had no idea. I do see on parent FB group a very kind local parent who makes offers to drop things off in an emergency etc which I think is so nice. But paying someone to “ check in” in your college kid? I mean mine would be beside herself if some random “paid mom” was trying to contact her. I can’t imagine many college students would be cool with that. |
Anonymous
Why do you need this? My college kid would hate this. |
Anonymous
Mine, too. Are you actually just trying to advertise Mindyknows? |
Anonymous
Wow. I am that demographic and my freshmen kid got sick and I sent them a care package and moved in with my life. I think this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Antisemitic much? |
Anonymous
| When I was in college, my grandmother occasionally baked and sent me cookies. That was great. Everything else is complete overkill. There is presumably a drugstore and a health center. If your child is too ill to shop but not ill enough to be in the health center or hospital, a friend or dormmate can pick up some Advil. |
Anonymous
| Why is everyone with nose out of joint. I think this is a great service esp for freshman year and if you are sending a child far. I think it is a great business model. If you are not interested just move on. |
Anonymous
| Great idea for a “mom”! I could make some real money doing this as a side hustle. |