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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just drove 4 hours to help DD to start her 1st real job.  Sorry OP, you either dont have a kid or haven't speak to your child for years.  Feel really sorry for you.[/quote]

Can you give more detail about this?

My DD was hired straight out of undergrad and I can’t imagine how we could have helped her start her new job. Her dad sent flowers and I sent a text in the morning “You got this!”, but I don’t know how our physical presence would have added anything.

We did help her move to the new city. [/quote]
I think OP is ridiculous, but the above post is also ridiculous.  That is over the top.

My first real job was hours away, and my parents gave me money to buy a nice suit and said, "good luck, I'm proud of you". That was it.  How does a parent "help" someone start her first real job?  What's so hard about starting a job?

Wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast (hopefully), get yourself to work and check in.  At what point here requires parental help for a 20 something year old?[/quote]

You are completely missing the point. There is no reason for parents to do anything for their children once they are adults. Yet, we support them. cheer them on, share in their milestones and teach them what being part of a family means.

Why did your parents give you money for a nice suit? You could have earned some money  and bought it yourself? Why did you not do that?  And if your real job was hours away then you would have needed either a place to stay near your job or a vehicle to drive you there? What help did your parents provide in that?

Basically, you are ok with taking the amount of help your parents were willing to give to you or able to afford to give to you;  and  extrapolate that it  was the correct amount of "involvement" from your parents.  I disagree.  Maybe your parents were emotionally unavailable, did not have the time or were not able to afford more involvement. They did what they could do and  no more.  All parents do what they can do and they are doing it.

You may have had a Dickensian childhood but that does not mean everyone else does. Frankly, you sound a lot like the current President who thinks that by removing parents from children and keeping children in cages will not harm them emotionally.  You seem very stunted in a lot of ways. [/quote]

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