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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Director should have called you.  It was irresponsible for a counselor to put your daughter on the phone when she was hysterical without an adult to talk with you after.

That said, I would get my child.  They know they can call DH or me at any point and we are there for them.  It is an incredibly important lesson as they enter their teen years.  I was beyond stressed my senior year in college with my workload and I called my mom hysterical at 10:00pm, and at 6:00am she was at my apartment and it was a 4 hour drive.  I will always be incredibly thankful because I just needed my mom.  [/quote]

I'm glad my parents raised me to be more independent than this. I guess I might have called my parents crying if I was upset about my workload in college, not sure, but if I had, there is NO WAY I would have expected or wanted them to drive 4 hours overnight to see me. If I were seriously ill or something, OK, but b/c I was stressed about homework? This does not seem healthy. [/quote]

Don’t worry!  I’m 46 with a husband, kids and an international job for a Fortune 500.  I’m still close to my mother.  I was and am still very independent which I think is what freaked out my mother and why she dropped everything and came to see me.  It’s good to know family is always there for me.  We all get along well.[/quote]

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