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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it doesn’t. Most parents are helicopters these days. This is just one version. Other moms troll grading websites, their kids phones, GPS track them, etc... [/quote]

What's wrong with GPS tracking?  I use it all the time on my high school student.  I check to see if he's on his way home (long commute from school), so I can plan dinner.  Eliminates need to call or text him asking when he will be home.  Our who family tracks each other for various purposes.

Grading websites...I also can see my son's grades.  I am paying $40K to send him to a high school, so I think I have every right to see his grades.

You hands off parents are just lazy.[/quote]

+1, we all have tracking on our phones.  Kids know where we are, if we are on our way, etc. and we know where they are.  Its very helpful.[/quote]

I do not track my high school kids, and I will not track them in college either. I look at my children's high school grades online no more than 2x a month (even though I'm tempted to check more often). I do not have access to my HS senior's application portals for the colleges he applied to.

I will not ask for access to the college grading/assignment website, but my child knows that I will want to see end of semester grades. I will expect my child to sign whatever forms are required to allow a college to release any medical records, and to designate me / his father as having medical power of attorney.

They have to become independent of parents. This is the most important -- and sometimes the hardest -- part of parenting teens. [/quote]

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