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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three cousins all went to bigger Southern schools.  They were raised by Gen X parents.  One set of parents quite literally bought an apartment where the daughter goes to school so they could attend all of the football home games. They say they give their daughter space and don't sit next to her at the games, but they quite literally fly in every single weekend there is  home game at the school where the D goes.  Same for the other 2 cousins. Parents bought a house in the city where the S goes to attend all of the games. They also go down to the city where their other D goes all the time, like probably 15+ weekends during a school year.

[b]Is it just a common these days for parents to be so clingy?  These kinds of helicopter parents were unheard of when I was in school. [/b] Who wants to go to college and have their parents even remotely close to them for the whole weekends for 85% of the academic year? [/quote]

My baby boomer parents in the early 90s bought season tickets and came to every football game at my Big Ten college (Michigan). They weren't clingy, they never even cared about football before I went to college, they just loved the atmosphere and seeing me. I don't think they ever spent the night in Ann Arbor though.[/quote]

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