How to connect with your child

arisamp
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:50:27 +0000

Seeing the same thing with S this past month. He called the first week and it was great. We called him back the next week and could talk to him. But no news after that except for short one line emails. He’s fairly active on facebook that I can see. I finally broke down and sent him an email asking him to call - turns out he had problems with his phone (couldn’t get service). Got him to turn the phone off and back on - problems fixed. He did call this past weekend so we could catch up.

No matter what I still feel disconnected - I think that comes from the fact that we used to all the details while he was at home! Takes a little getting used to this…

Question for the more experienced parents - do you feel like you’ve lost important info about them? Like you don’t know their close friends, the usual groups they are part of, any change in their likes/dislikes?