<p>I usually hear from my youngest D (junior in college) at least two or three times a week. Often she’ll call me on her way from one class to another.</p>
<p>My mom is 84 and I’m 55 and we talk every day. I look forward to talking to her. We laugh and gossip. My D and I do the same. We talk about all kinds of things - the season finale of Entourage, a new band, the dog’s arthritis, etc. etc. Few of my friends have a similar relationship with their moms - most only talk once a week or a lot less often.</p>
<p>I usually call or get called by my mom every day. Basically, we just talk for like 2 or 3 minutes. Just the “how was your day?” or “do you need anything from home?” or “meet any nice girls recently?” type stuff.</p>
<p>I call my dad about 2-3 times/ day. <3</p>
<p>Actually, I think it would be easier to briefly talk with my mom every day or so than having the rare conversation that always feels like it has to be more substantial or revealing. Frankly, it can be exhausting.</p>
<p>Call her! I love talking to my Mom every day. She’s hillarious, even when she doesn’t mean to be…but mostly on purpose. 
I can’t imagine I won’t still want to talk to my girls every day when I am old.</p>
<p>D usually calls once a week when she is away at summer camp, sometimes skipping a week. I’ll be happy if she continues that frequency when she is in college. Calling every day would be a sign that she isn’t happy. I’d be worried sick.</p>
<p>For awhile there (like 10 days straight) we chatted on FB every night for over an hour (at like midnight his time)! Other times he calls and wants to chat forever. Then he’ll go two weeks and we wont hear anything at all! Sometimes we’ll email back and forth about a paper he has written. There is no rhyme or reason and when I’m feeling like it has been too long, I’ll pick up the phone and he’ll talk if he can, or return the call within a day or so if he can’t. He is really a great kid. :)</p>
<p>I expect my daughter will call daily with a crisis. She goes away next year. She’s a great kid too, just needs a bit more hand-holding.</p>
<p>Cartera, Girlyman has an interesting set of voices. One male, one female, one m2f tranny. The male is, ah, flamboyant, performing recently in a fuchsia colored jump suit. One of the bios says that Simon & Garfunkle was an early influence but I hear music in the vein of the Mamas & the Papas or Peter, Paul, Mary with the slightest bit of country (Wiki called it Americana) thrown in but with edgier lyrics. I’m currently fixated on “Hold It All At Bay”, which you can get from iTunes.</p>
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Contact me for the a copy of The Parent’s Guide to Interrogation: Subtle Techniques for the Generation that Puts Everything Interesting on Facebook or LiveJournal behind password protection. Cash and in small bills only, please.</p>
<p>I have one son who calls the moment he gets a grade…LOL I think it’s because he wants to share his good news with someone and doesn’t want to appear to be bragging to a classmate or friend. He knows his parents will just be happy to hear the good news.</p>
<p>I have another who only calls when he needs something. Each kid is different, and that’s ok…I can see the other son’s grades online… ;)</p>
<p>DD maybe calls twice a month and sometimes answers a text. She is so happy and busy that is fine with me.</p>
<p>Threads like this have been enormously helpful to me, as my S is not a great communicator with me.
I was delighted to get a text that he landed safely half way around the world!!!</p>
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<p>I need to do the interrogation because my dyslexic boy doesn’t feel like typing and only checks Facebook when someone contacts him. [Kind of like my wife who checked her email once or twice a year whether she needed to or not – and if you check it that frequently, you don’t need to]. The last new thing he typed on his own was a one-liner on where he chose to go to college and the fact that he loved it.</p>
<p>Of course, now that I’ve said my DS calls me several times a day, I didn’t hear a peep out of him yesterday.</p>
<p>TheDad - I am proud to say that I scooped D on Girlyman - doesn’t happen often. I thought I had her last week when I heard “The Sounds” but she already has their music. I did introduce her to Peter, Bjorn & John and Chester French several years ago. I listened to clips from Girlyman on their MySpace site and I enjoyed it. She liked Easy Bake Oven. Of course, I immediately thought of Indigo Girls.</p>
<p>Maybe he reads this forum.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I have never called home since this semester started…my parents call me once everyday and even that gets annoying…</p>
<p>Mamabear, it’s not that I am soooo interested in daily college life. We just have always talked and it seems to have continued—for instance son calls about a news clip he has seen and wants to discuss, d. might call to tell me about something funny she saw the night before, oldest son usually just calls to say “hi” and have a brief conversation about whatever. Of course, I usually give my mom a quick call daily too.</p>
<p>I usually do not call the kids myself unless I need information on something or need to relay information like a package was delivered at home do they want me to send it.</p>
<p>Guess we are just talkers.</p>
<p>Shaw, anent interrogation, I was referencing your observation that things about his life slipped out. I think most of us parents like to know what’s going on but our offspring are wildly variable in how much information they’re inclined to freely share. Hence the need for the Parents Guide to Interrogation. </p>
<p>Mine, for instance, is very chatty about everything except thoughts about grad/professional school. It stresses her out enough, she says, but talking about it even makes it worse. Me? I like to vent when I’m stressed. Go figure. Whereas information about friends of the male persuasion is doled out on a need-to-know basis. I swear, it was easier getting a Secret security clearance from the Navy.</p>
<p>I talk to my mom in one way or another pretty much every day, sometimes we’ll go a day or two without talking but it’s no big deal. Most of the time we just text, sometimes use iChat if we both happen to be on the computer at the same time. My dad and I occasionally text or exchange emails about stuff we think is funny, plus he always wants to know about my poli-sci class (my teacher is a raging liberal, my dad’s a die-hard conservative). I talk to my parents on the phone about once a week but it’s not scheduled or anything…it just happens.</p>