<p>We’ve attended every year. Parent/Family Weekend seems to mostly be an opportunity for new recruitment of future students. Several events are planned, we look forward to the student recognition ceremony.</p>
<p>went all four years for d and will do same for s
we’re on opposite sides of country btw
never attend events, just try to learn something about the kids’ lives
family weekend seems like the time they’re more available for this
otherwise i think they’re pretty busy</p>
<p>My D and roomates look forward to our magnanimous gestures. My DW loves to take our D shopping to replenish supplies. Not to mention, they’ve never turned down our invitation to treat them to dinner or breakfast the next day. I guess dorm food remains the one constant in the universe,…horrible.</p>
<p>D is a senior and this will be our 4th Family Weekend. She is always thrilled to see us, have us pick up the tab for her purchases, and go out to eat. This year she has a car and can drive herself to Target, the grocery store, etc, but the first 3 years she usually had a list of places she wanted us to take her. S is a freshman and we just went to Parents’ Weekend. He can look forward to 3 more years.</p>
<p>We went to one Parents Weekend at older son’s school (he wasn’t far away). We will be going to middle son’s Parents Weekend this month (he is farther away). We’ll see how this one goes before making the decision about whether or not we will go to future ones.</p>
<p>I went to see my 1st for three years during parent’s weekend, but didn’t attend any events from the college ( didn’t see the point of seeing other student’s productions when what we wanted to do was just visit with our own and have fun in Boston )</p>
<p>I also went to next daughter’s family weekend last year, but will pass this year. She is too busy with events , so I will just fly up sometime and take her out to dinner when the hotel rates are NOT thru the roof because Boston has so many events going on simultaneously.</p>
<p>It’s just not popular at my son’s school. Last year’s events included a barbeque dinner, a Disney movie, a carnival, a magician, and Mass. We attended the dinner and the magic show, but never saw more than 20 parents total. Our younger kids would have killed us, had we had forced them to attend with us.</p>
<p>We usually do attend these Family Weekends & always enjoy ourselves. Just returned from D#3’s & we brought my parents along, who had a great time! H & I did the driving.</p>
<p>We just ask our D and do what she wants us to do.</p>
<p>I think I would be more likely to attent daughter’s sorority mother daughter event in the spring</p>
<p>Yes, we are attending sorority parent weekend.</p>
<p>We went this year (S is a freshman), but the events were pretty lame. A presentation on Video Microscopy of Developing Worms just doesn’t do it for me. Still, we had a nice visit and took S out to eat.</p>
<p>The nice thing about visiting on family weekend is that S can’t get embarrassed about having parents around because other kids’ parents are there, too! :D</p>
<p>We’ve gone every year for both D and S. Knowing them, they would have felt a bit disappointed if they saw their friends with their parents and we weren’t there with them.
D went to a school an hour away by plane and S was 3000 miles away. We also brought them home every Thanksgiving and winter break.</p>
<p>We went the first year for DD1 but not since. Just not that much of interest once you’ve been through it already.</p>
<p>Feeling very sad today, since this weekend is parents’ weekend for my S and we decided not to attend. S is a freshman who seems to be adjusting extremely well to college life. He expressed that he didn’t feel it was necessary for us to attend. He’s our first to leave the nest, and after 5 weeks, I would really love to see him. H is OK with waiting until Thanksgiving. I’m about ready to spontaneously jump in the car and make the 6 hour drive, even though I know my S doesn’t really want us to come. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Mom2009: Jump in the car and go!!! It is called Parent’s Weekend because it’s for the parents. If you need to just spend 10 minutes with your S to make you feel good then the ride is worth it. Gas up the car!!!</p>
<p>I agree MOM…your S will only be a freshman once and also…he will probably appreciate it once you are there when he sees all of the other parents that came…Being a freshman, he has no idea what parent’s weekend is all about. Gas up that car NOW and hit the road :)</p>
<p>“it isn’t necessary for you to attend”-Ha! “Who are you to say?” I would have replied. “It is certainly necessary for me.” And besides, maybe he thinks he doesn’t want to put you through the expense or hassle, or maybe he’s saying "How much do you want to come/love me/miss me?</p>
<p>We went last year–freshman year–for D1, and will go again this year. There is always a home football game. Her sorority has a dinner on Friday and a BBQ on the back porch of the house Sat before the game. There are a lot of activities put on by the U as well, and a 5K run/walk. It is a 6 hour drive. But we enjoy seeing D and going to the game.</p>
<p>We go every year-son is now a Senior and so this will be the last horrah. We haven’t seen him in 5 weeks and so I am definitely ready for some family time. Plus, he gave me a long list of things to bring up (4 hours away) including alot of home cooked meals! I have enjoyed cooking and baking for his house the last few days. If you can go, I say go…these times go by very quickly. I think they appreciate seeing us (even though they often say don’t bother). Enjoy it all!</p>