<p>I am a parent. I think it is a terrible idea for a college student to go home every weekend. College is more than just academic, it is time to network, making new friends, participating in on campus activities, learn to be independent. </p>
<p>I know kids who go to school less than half an hour away, their parents insist on them staying on campus and only come home during school breaks, like other students. </p>
<p>My kid is going to have Labor Day off. She asked if she should come home for the long weekend. I told her absolutely not. I would rather drive up to see her if she missed home than for her to come home so soon. </p>
<p>We have an older kid living and working in the same city as where we live. She has her own apartment. She comes over for dinners sometimes, but she doesn’t sleep over.</p>
<p>As parents, we raise our kids so they could be self supporting adults someday. It shouldn’t be our goal to have them tie to us indefinitely. By living at college on their own is a very big first step.</p>