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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haha wow all this discussion on helicoptering. When that comes up on this board, I always think, what a miserable human being that you have to comment on someone else’s parenting.

I just got off the phone with my DD Who called me on her way to pick up lunch. We talked about her classes, her health (she has strep), her summer job prospects, how packing to come home is going etc. I mean just normal conversation, do you people seriously not talk to your kids?

I couldn’t feel less shame for how I parent my kids and I am happy they stay in touch with me just to chat or ask my advice. I almost never call them, unless I need something urgently. I have left it up to them and they still choose to speak to me often. I am happy about that and don’t feel the least bit bad about it.[/quote]

I agree!  My dd and I don't speak on the phone - ever, we both dislike phone calls - but chitchat by text a few times a day most days.  Sometimes it's just sharing a silly meme or picture, other times she will ask for my take or advice on something.  It means a lot to me that I am one of the people she has in her life to reach out to and does it voluntarily, I certainly didn't have that kind of relationship with my own parent.  I don't know a TON about her day to day, but I have a decent sense of the things that are going really well and make her happy, the things that are sometimes stressful or difficult, and how she is navigating them.  For a parent of a 19yo that feels like a pretty good place to be.[/quote]

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