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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
What’s college like for the parents?
We’ve talked about the great adventure of starting kindergarten but what happens when they head off to college?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Yesterday, we talked about braving the bold new world of kindergarten and we had requests to discuss what the experience is like for parents to take their kids to college.
We were talking about eating lunch with our new little school-goers and one mom was teasing another about showing up at UGA’s dining hall to eat with her son.
Do you only get to come to campus when invited? Are they embarrassed to have you at the dorm or apartment or to show you around campus?
How do the finances work these days? How much say do you get in how the money is spent?
How much do you know about their classes and how they’re doing?
How often do you ask them to check in? Do you know or care if they’re “sleeping over” with the opposite sex? (With cell phones it would be hard to tell if they were in their dorm room or somewhere else. We used to not be able to fake that.)
Was it hard to drop them off? Would it be easier if they lived at home and went to college? Do they gain as much from that experience?
Tell us what the college experience is like for the parent.
