<p>just curious, i go to school very close to home i could get home with no outside help but my parents give me a tough time about it thinking i should be at school on the weekends
anyone else in the same position?</p>
<p>Nope, my parents are always very happy to have me come home for a day or two.</p>
<p>Maybe your parents just want you to try and really get in your groove at school? I know some students always go home on the weekends and they often find themselves having a tough time making lasting connections with people since they’re never around during prime socializing hours.</p>
<p>yeah i mean they tell me its not that they don’t want me home but they want me to focus on school and stuff</p>
<p>They used to give me a hard time when I went home every weekend. Really, they were right and I regret it in retrospect. I hardly ever go home now.</p>
<p>My parents are welcoming when I go home, but I think they’re happier for me to be independent.</p>
<p>Obviously, there’s no popping home to England from Massachusetts. I did go back for Christmas, but not during the semester… that would be dumb and expensive.</p>
<p>When I’m at uni in England (I’m just here on an exchange) I go home maybe once a semester, but it’s easy and it’s a nice way to de-stress over a weekend, without cooking or cleaning or anything.
I go by train and it’s a nice journey, only 2-3 hours.
The trolley of cauldron cakes and chocolate frogs is a bonus.</p>
<p>I come home everyday because… I live there 
My parents are very budget minded people so they perfectly understand my choice to commute instead of dorming.</p>
<p>My parents like it when I’m home. According to my mom, my dad is counting down the weeks until I’m home for spring break! I do go to school 500 miles from home though, so I only go home for break weeks, never just on weekends.</p>
<p>^ same situation here, minus 200 miles though. </p>
<p>Haven’t been home since January 9th. Kinda sucks. :</p>
<p>My parents give me a hard time about not coming home. I live 2 hours away from school and haven’t been home since break. And I won’t go back until spring break.</p>
<p>My parents never give me a hard time about coming home, but I don’t come home except for long breaks (My school’s about 550 miles away from home).</p>
<p>You parents want time alone after raising you for so long.</p>
<p>“I go by train and it’s a nice journey, only 2-3 hours.
The trolley of cauldron cakes and chocolate frogs is a bonus.”</p>
<p>Agreed. Although I prefer the jelly beans;)</p>
<p>Our DD says the students that are having the most trouble adjusting are the students who return home on weekends. I “third” the chorus that your parents know that coming home is detrimental in many ways. Stay there - reach out!!</p>
<p>My parents think I don’t go home enough and I go home about once a month. Once I’m at home, I feel like a queen. They do everything for me, even my laundry. Although I like to hang out with friends on the weekends, sometimes I prefer going home and just bumming around.</p>
<p>When DS started, we told him he had to stay for a month before coming home. Forced him to figure out who was there on weekends and find friends to hang out with. Plus, we were paying for him to eat and sleep on campus…</p>
<p>After that month, we rarely saw him except for breaks. We only lived an hour away from his school. Building a life in a new location fosters independence and helps students really begin to grow up.</p>
<p>yeah they did make the point about the adjustment thing but i have friends and weekends are just boring there frankly, i would just rather be at home cuz i still have a lot of friends who are home</p>