<p>DS1 (rising HS senior) is FABULOUS about contacting me when he is traveling, whether solo via air, on his way back from a meeting with his prof and needs to let me know when he’ll be at the bus station, etc. (Maybe I should suggest he spends a semester abroad so I’ll hear from him1 :)) He attended a summer program last year and we hardly heard from him. He was better this spring at another long-distance event. </p>
<p>IMs felt intrusive, emails were good. Calls are decent. He tends to contact me more than his dad, esp by phone, which can be touchy.</p>
<p>I have told him that we felt left out of his life when he was gone last summer, and that we should agree on some sort of regular communicatrion when he goes off to college so we aren’t feeling left in the cold, and he’s not feeling nagged. We have reached tentative agreement at once a week.</p>
<p>I suspect we’ll be emailing a lot.</p>