My S's roommate is Pigpen

Georgiatwins
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:48:37 +0000

Three weeks into this semester, I received a call from D’s roommate’s MOTHER. The mother called to tell me that “we have a problem”. Her daughter “could not take it anymore”-seems our D stayed up late to study, kept her D awake and was not as neat. While I was inclined to agree with roommate’s mom about some of her D’s concerns, I was stunned that I was hearing from D;s roommates mother. This mom has also been to talk with the RA during parent’s weekend.

I strongly encouraged other mom to have her D talk with mine-thought that might be the most appropriate thing for two young adults to work through issue and work through the problem on their own.

We did encourage our D to talk with roommate-D is trying to be mindful of roommate’s schedule, etc. I have decided that roommate matching is more important than I realized-entire situation has dampened D’s enthusiasm for school.