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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haha wow all this discussion on helicoptering. When that comes up on this board, I always think, what a miserable human being that you have to comment on someone else’s parenting.

I just got off the phone with my DD Who called me on her way to pick up lunch. We talked about her classes, her health (she has strep), her summer job prospects, how packing to come home is going etc. I mean just normal conversation, do you people seriously not talk to your kids?

I couldn’t feel less shame for how I parent my kids and I am happy they stay in touch with me just to chat or ask my advice. I almost never call them, unless I need something urgently. I have left it up to them and they still choose to speak to me often. I am happy about that and don’t feel the least bit bad about it.[/quote]

Same. My Mom and I were great friends as adults. I am a very independent adult, but I appreciated my parents’ advice as long as they were living, and I miss not having them to talk to now. I would be so sad if my kid never called and asked for my advice again. Why is that considered to be a good thing? [/quote]

That’s really not what people are talking about here. Talking to your parents and asking them for reasonable advice is different than having your parents provide basic over the counter meds for you that you could pick up at CVS. [/quote]

At the beginning of this thread, when parents of actual freshmen were offering helpful advice about what they'd learned this year, many posters mentioned that they wished they'd sent a first-aid kit to college with their freshman. Seems like a good point, and I'm going to do it when my kid goes to college in a few years. [/quote]

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