Communicating with Your College Student
September 18, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Parenting
When your youngster goes off to college for the first time, they like to keep in touch with the family at home. Also, mom, dad and siblings like to know all is going well with them.
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Nowadays, there are so many ways to communicate and to let them know the ties with home aren’t broken:
- Phone and cell phone
- Text messaging
- Facebook or similar
- Skype of similar
- Postal mail
- “Care” packages
I think our granddaughter has received all of these types of communications from her parents, brother, grandparents, friends and aunt. We know her ups and downs and she knows we’re all here and care.
Nowadays the means of communication are so many versus my college days when we wrote letters to parents and they to us. We used the phone only for emergencies because long distance calls weren’t in the family budget.
When our daughter attended college, we used the phone a little more. But the postal mail was the main means of messages back and forth.
How do you keep in touch with your college students?
