<p>Does anyone know whether it is worth for parents to come to IntroDUCKtion?</p>
<p>I think it depends on the parents’ interest level, and also on whether the student has feelings either way. It can be a really fun and interesting thing for parents and students to do, it can be one of those nice rites of passage where with each step the student gets closer to leaving home and the parents get closer to sending them off into their growing independence. It’s fun and sweet at the same time.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if the student isn’t interested in having that experience with his/her parents, really wants to be (and especially to appear) independent, cool, whatever… then it can be kind of unpleasant for both kids an parents. The student doesn’t want parents around much, and the parents feel like they’ve made the investment to come and share the experience, but feel excluded by their own kid. </p>
<p>There isn’t anything concrete you find out at IntroDucktion that you can’t find on the UO website. The point of IntroDucktion for parents is to connect with others, get some actual physical connection to the campus, participate in the student’s upcoming transition – so it’s all the kind of thing you either enjoy as a parent and a family, or it’s not your kind of thing, or you would like to do it if you could make the time/afford the trip/didn’t have way too much else on your plate, but right now it would just be really difficult. You probably know what camp you fall into there – and they are all perfectly legitimate positions.</p>
<p>Hi, good characterization, thanks. I signed up because I just love this stuff, and the chance to meet a few other parents, but i may slip out of a few sessions. We are attending July 29,30-anyone else?</p>