Axios - Many first-year college students from different states, backgrounds and majors have one thing in common: stressed-out parents struggling with the separation, Axios' Erica Pandey writes. Parents have grown more involved in, and more anxious about, their kids' lives. That's changing the experience of going to college — and growing up. They're using tech to track their kids, micromanaging orientation week and even having dorm sleepovers....
- 41% of parents say their young adult children rely on them a fair amount or a great deal for emotional support, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
- "Some parents are holding onto a level of involvement that's maybe healthy for a toddler deep into their kids' teen years, when it maybe becomes unhealthy," says Mathilde Ross, a senior staff psychiatrist at Boston University.
Parents' stress is on display in online forums and Facebook groups, where parents are asking questions and offering emotional support to one another. Parents ask about minute-to-minute details of orientation, for advice from other parents for advice on their kids' roommate woes and where to shop for basic toiletries. Share this story.
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After the first month at college my mother was iucky if I called her once a month. College students shoild only rarely talk to thier parents. They will be much happier.
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