Do your kids really miss home when they leave for college?

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<p>I started an earlier thread about this:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=172&highlight=call[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=172&highlight=call&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Nope, our daughter is excited to be at college and doesn’t miss us nearly as much as we miss her. I wonder if your parents are starting to realize how much they’ll miss you next year, and projecting similar feelings onto you…</p>

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<p>Miss home? Where old people tell him to pick up his towels and go to bed at a decent hour?</p>

<p>Very funny question.</p>

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<p>To parents of older kids:</p>

<p>How do you handle the transition when they come home and have been keeping who knows what kind of hours and now they are back under your roof with “guidelines”?</p>

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<p>Hopefully, if the relationship isn’t fractious, the adjustments come naturally. </p>

<p>You don’t feel the need to wait up until he/she comes home (otherwise you’ll be up all night). </p>

<p>Harping still jumps out your mouth, but it feels funny and you might decide to start zipping it. Or you might decide to let loose this year and wait until college graduation to zip it :). </p>

<p>He/she is still immature and needs to be reminded to pick up towels or help with the dishes.</p>

<p>All in all, you should feel the once opposite forces start to move toward a common point of adulthood and friendship. </p>

<p>Woohoo!</p>

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<p>I dont miss home, mainly because it was a hell house. And there’s still stuff going on, like my mom sued my dad…Well I like it here and I won’t be home for Thanksgiving.</p>