How often does your child call home?

UCDAlum82
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:41:05 +0000

Eons ago, when I was in college my parents insisted on a weekly phone call. The phone was in the center room of our suite, near the door, and we tended to leave the door unlocked. One early Sunday morning my parents called and one of the guys down the hall heard the phone ringing as he walked by, opened the door and answered the phone, “UCDALUM, yeah, she’s still in bed, I’ll get her for you…” I’m not sure what they thought, but they didn’t call that early again.

My DD’s a junior now, and calls when something really cool happens, or if she needs something, or if she needs someone to talk to when walking across campus alone at night. Today I called her for no reason, and she sounded surprised. But yeah, that adds up to a couple times a month. She does occasionally text. But email? Apparently that is for dinosaurs.