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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny, my parents didn't care at all about my living experience, where I slept, if I had food to eat or enough money for necessities. I look back on it and it's hard to comprehend, because they were generally very good parents and are nurturing people and not remotely poor. I would be mortified if my kids lived the way I lived in college. So I believe there is a middle ground.[/quote]

Yes college is like high school used to be. High school is like middle school. Middle school is elementary

The children aren’t ready for any independence until after grad school and 2 years living at home.[/quote]

I studied abroad in China at a major Chinese university in the late 2000s. What struck me the most was that the Chinese college students were having the same experiences I had in my American high school (first kiss, first GF/BF, drinking for the first time, staying out late, etc.)

It seems like Americans kids are having a similar regression. Everything we Millennials did in HS are now being done by American kids when they get to college.

I was a total latchkey kid starting in 6th grade, riding my bike home and starting homework until my parents got home from work at 530pm. Kids don't have the same independence today and the same was true of Chinese college students at an elite university (they were constantly monitored by parents to study). These leads to parents helicoptering even in college. They are basically acting in a similar way as my parents when I was in HS. [/quote]

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