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[quote=Anonymous]For short breaks, like Thanksgiving and spring break—

1.  put us on the calendar for a family meal. Your favorite restaurant or mom meal that you miss.

2.  Be considerate of everyone else in the house. Let us know if you won’t be home for dinner or won’t be home by 11pm (or will be gone overnight), keep the noise down during normal people sleep hours, pick up after yourself, leave your room in such a condition that the cleaning service can work.

Besides that, sleep in, see friends, eat at weird hours (but you cook). The short back and forth scan be a whiplash for kids and parents, so it’s easiest to let them remain in college sleep and eat “mode” and not mess with the budding autonomy, unless the kid is creating problems for other family members.

For winter breaks, (a month) and especially summer months, mostly the same, but during the summer you need to be working, interning, taking classes- something productive.  And you need to do your own laundry and a few household chores regularly.
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