How to connect with your child

RuralMama
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:09:59 +0000

I hope no news is good news, as .02 said. I just worry that DS suffers in silence, trying to be stoic. (LOL, probably he is just fine.) So, I have been reduced to becoming somewhat of a “stalker mom”. (I believe DS is unaware of this.) I feel like I can at least get a vague sense of what he is up to on Facebook (his new ‘friends’, for example…or a picture posted of him there by someone else). And then there are the weekly pictures posted on the school website. Sometimes he’s actually in one (or maybe that kid in the distance that isn’t quite recognizable might just be him). Also, Skype pops up with a message that he is ‘online’ every now and then, too. (I try to resist sending him a message every time this occurs, at the risk of being just too annoying and overbearing.) It is not much, but it is at least a little glimpse as to what he is up to. We also try to get in the weekly phone call or Skype, but the voice/video quality is so poor on both mediums, it is barely satisfying. I know, I know…he is becoming independent. Now I am working on being more independent, too!