Anonymous wrote:I am not packing my kids’ college stuff. They are.

+1

Anonymous wrote:If you read the statistics, STDs don't impact smart UMC Caucasian and Asian kids. Anxiety and depression are far greater concerns for these demos.

PP, nor teen pregnancy

If you read the statistics, STDs don't impact smart UMC Caucasian and Asian kids. Anxiety and depression are far greater concerns for these demos.

Anonymous wrote:I am not packing my kids’ college stuff. They are.

This!! What the heck are you doing packing an adult’s things?

Anonymous wrote:Do you start your daughter on birth control before she leaves for college? Honest question that I've been thinking about lately.

Started mine in HS at her request because she and her dr thought they would help her heavy periods and acne (and they did). The fact that they would also help to keep her from getting pregnant in college was not a bad thing, though.

Interesting side note: if she had told her dr that she wanted them for birth control, dr told me that I wouldn't have been told about it (by dr, anyway).

But because she is under 18 and said she wanted them for heavy periods/acne, I had to be made aware of it because she is underage (this was in Virginia and I was told it is a quirk of Virginia law to exempt birth control from the normal requirement for parental notification).

Regardless, they are covered and are free under family BCBS (thanks, ACA!). I remember them costing me 30 years ago...

It's funny people act like condoms are in some category other than Claritin or Kleenex.

It's helicopter to do the shopping for the family.

You people are crazy prudish.

Yes they are on the shopping list since my kids were 16.

As the Director of a College Health Centre, they get given away free all over the place. Including in dorms

And the helicoptering doesn't stop with packing your kids stuff for college and trying to give them everything so they don't have to find anything on their own. I get probably 5 calls a week on average from parents insistent to know their kids health information or wanting me to force their child to sign consents, or wanting to tell me how to manage their kids health...after grilling their kid for every detail. We have a lot of kids in counselling who are trying to figure out how to set boundaries with over involved parents.

I also get calls from parents requesting wellness checks because they haven't heard from their kid today.

There are many parents who know how to step back and many others who don't. Also many kids whose parents didn't raise them with the skills they need to be healthy independent adults. We now have to offer all kinds of basic life skills and basic coping skills because so many young adults are still like children due to how they were raised.

Anonymous wrote:Heck no! But then again I'm looking forward to grandchildren.

While your kids are college students??!!?? WTF?

Anonymous wrote:Seeing this post reminded me of dropping my brother off at college. As we were carrying stuff into the dorm, the bottom fell out of one of his boxes and an enormous box of condoms spilled everywhere. My mom quickly remembered she had dropped something in the stairwell. My dad was trying to keep a straight face and I laughed so hard it turned into a coughing fit with tears running down my face. It was a special family moment.

Thank you for this. (I would buy you a commemorative Christmas ornament if they made them.)

Anonymous wrote:Do you start your daughter on birth control before she leaves for college? Honest question that I've been thinking about lately.

Mine went on midway through 12th grade. Her younger sister is a lesbian so that’s one less awkward convo.

I did not pack for my kids when they were going to college.

<<Do you start your daughter on birth control before she leaves for college? >

We had a talk. I left it up to her but made sure she understood that this cannot be safely left to the last minute. Even though she has never even had her first date, I explained places she could go and what the process would look like. She decided not to bring any with her.....but we will revisit.

I did. I packed them in a pencil box jammed full and wrote “andys box o fun” on it. It was kind of a joke and he took it as funny when he unpacked after we left.

If you are the one responsible for purchasing your chid's birth control, your child is not mature enough to be dropped off at college.

Give the child at least another year at home to grow up and become more self sufficient.

Also the HPV vaccine - throat cancer making a comeback and not from smoking but Oral sex