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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It feels like very few people on this thread can distinguish between sending a kid to school with Advil and Band-Aids (which honestly, isn't this just common sense?) versus replenishing their zinc and organic toothpaste weekly and making them send photos of their meal every day. There is middle ground. Most parents these days really do tend to veer toward the overprotective. I get it. I was that way for a long time. When my kid left for college, he was practically crippled with fear because he didn't know how he was going to figure anything out--and I was responsible for that. I majorely pulled back the reins and now at the end of freshman year he has so much figured out and acts like a really confident, capable adult, but one who knows he can call or text me anytime. Given the choice to do it over, I would have coddled him a lot less throughout high school so he would have known sooner what he is capable of. I recommend it![/quote]

+1 and the funny thing is that the PP who said she provided all the whole food supplies for the semester even I think said she was aware that others may think it was too much but she did not care, that's what she did. And you know what, WE should not care what any other parent chooses to do for their kid.

the OP said she'd send more airborne I think it was and meds if she'd realized how often it was needed, so why is that bad? Seems like good advice. Why are we still arguing about this 12-13 pages in?[/quote]

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