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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend’s child got into a prestigious university. We were very happy for her DD. However, my friend has posted on FB at least 50x that 1) her DD is devastated that the fall semester might be online and 2) my friend feels the university has cheated them of the classic freshman experience. Sometimes she has posted twice a day about this. I’m starting to feel sympathetic for the girl who might be stuck at home with a Momzilla. Is she going to get past this or do I need to change my FB settings to ignore her for the foreseeable future? [/quote]

I had a wonderful freshman experience and want the same for my DC.  I’d be disappointed for my kid if he got into a prestigious university and had to spend the first semester or year in our house doing online school just like he’s doing now.  I also want my kid to have the emotional growth I had during my first year be being away from home.  If it were a school that I was stretching financially to give my DC what I viewed as an incredible opportunity, that would stress me out to be stretching my means for my DC to sit a home doing exactly what he’s doing now.  I wouldn’t post this on Facebook at all because that’s not my style, but I would feel the anxiety of it strongly because I tend to be an anxious person.  Cut your friend some slack.  Maybe making multiple posts is a way of releasing some of her anxiety.  It might be increasing it, but she’s probably just doing what she needs to.  Only communicating by text or phone calls is fine because that’s what you need to do.[/quote]

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