<p>How much contact do you reccommend keeping in touch back home with mom and dad? Is once a week too much? too little?</p>
<p>Incoming freshman, returning students and graduates of college opinion's are greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>I’ll probably call my mom at least twice a week, and text every other day (:
My dad, I might call once a week - he’s less needy, lol.</p>
<p>I called my mom (or IM’d or Skyped) nearly everyday. Mostly because I had no classes in the afternoon and was bored, or I had something to tell her or ask her. There is no such thing as “too much” as far as I’m concerned.</p>
<p>My mom was talking with one of her friends (who has a child in college already), and she said her child called & visited frequently at the beginning, but then that all started to decline~ as her child hung out with friends, and got busy with college LOL xD</p>
<p>I plan on calling once a week, but we’ll see how that goes o.o We only live 2 hours away from the school, so I could probably visit on holidays & such.</p>
<p>I talked with my mom everyday if not twice a day… yes i’m weird.</p>
<p>just call however much is good for you, there’s no damn magic formula</p>
<p>yeah once a week is pretty standard, although like everything else there’s a big range. Short emails are more common for me; I found myself generally replying to pics or articles my parents sent me. </p>
<p>The word on the street is that if you call them unprompted (especially if you don’t do that often) then something is probably wrong with you, or at least that’s what they’ll think.</p>
<p>I called my parents…every single day, probably more than once a day. I was really homesick my first semester away from home and I called them to just vent about whatever I was feeling so I could just get it out of my system. I probably annoyed them a lot, but at least they always answered and listened.</p>
<p>i try once a week, but my mom calls too damn much</p>
<p>It really depends on your relationship. Whenever anything funny or interesting happens my mom and I share it with each other. As such, we text just about every day. We call when there is a reason to, which sometimes works out to be once a week, sometimes once a month, whatever. My parents almost never call me though, my mom texts me to ask if I am busy or if I’ll call if she just wants to chat.</p>
<p>I don’t go home to visit except on breaks, and once or twice a school year for a doctors appointment-- I go to school half an hour away so I see my same doctors for major things. And I am lame and go home for halloween to take my nephews and nieces trick or treating. :P</p>
<p>I never talked to my dad unless I was home on break or my computer needed fixing. We don’t have a bad relationship or anything, we just don’t have the same kind of relationship that my mom and I have.</p>
<p>I think it actually depends a lot on your parents. If they’re the type to freak out if they go a few days without hearing from you, set up a calling schedule (like, Wednesday and Sunday afternoons). If they’re more laid-back, you can just call every few days whenever you have time to talk for a little while. Two times a week, about 30-45 minutes per call, is what works for me, but everybody’s different.</p>
<p>At least once a week. Sometimes twice a week.</p>
<p>It depends on the relationship, but for the most part, I do not think there is such a thing as “too much”. Family is important–remember who put you in college in the first place.</p>
<p>Like everyone else has said, it really depends on what you and your parents need to be comfortable. My parents require a weekly phone call on Sunday from both me and my brother, which isn’t a big deal. I’m really close with my mom, but I’d feel weird calling every day. I generally stuck to the Sunday phone call and then I’d email a few times during the week (every day at first, then as we both got more comfortable with me being away more like 2-3x a week) just to let them know what was going on with me. If anything really good happened (acing a test in a class where I’d previously been studying like crazy to pull C’s, for example) I would usually call to share the good news. Really, just feel it out for yourself, talk to your parents about what they expect, and you should be fine.</p>
<p>skyped for an hour or two once a week freshman year. less after that.</p>
<p>I think once a week is plenty. My parents are great, but I also don’t want to start missing out on opportunities to meet new people or do new things just because I need to talk to my parents.</p>
<p>I am currently in Japan and have been here for two months and i call my parents twice a day as well. I have no friends and worry that homesickness is taking over everything in my life. Any advice? Should i limit calls to my parents. :(</p>
<p>LOL… I commute from home (I live with my family) and I still text my parents from school everyday - usually just the standard “Good morning Mom/Dad, I love you! Have a great day!” type thing. I usually just do it so that my parents know I made it to school on time - and that I’m not stuck in some delay on the train or whatever.</p>
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