<p>Tonight at 10pm on the Family Channel there’s a new reality series which takes place at Drexel where the parents live in the dorms with their kids for awhile…I have nightmares about going back to dorm life, I can’t imagine doing that voluntarily!!</p>
<p>I’m a lifelong learner and when I was older than old, I took my son and a colleague took her two sons and we, the older ladies, went back to university for 2 summers towing our kids along. Actually, it was fun in a weird sort of way. The boys still talk about it. They attended camps held for kids on the campus and had amazing experiences of learning baseball American style in the deep south! Her kids were French. Oh yes, and we all lived in the dorms!</p>
<p>During an Admitted Students Day at the University of Miami they spoke of one move-in weekend when a hurricane hit south Florida. The intensity of the storm picked up rapidly, roads became impassable and the students spent the first weekend in their dorm rooms with their parents.:eek:</p>
<p>EWWWW, so but WITH their OWN kids, talk about bloody awkward</p>
<p>In an emergency fine, but to just get on TV? blech</p>
<p>I’m sure there are exceptions, but I think most typical dorm rooms would be too filthy for the average parent. The common parental reaction is, “Did we live like this?” (Yes, we did, we just don’t remember or got used to it at the time)</p>
<p>Ah, yes. Bunk beds, studying and drinking- lots of it. One of the scenes shows the D getting so drunk she is hugging the toilet. The parents don’t worry - she is out of it and sleeping it off. The young man worries that she had alcohol poisoning, and the parents dismiss it. Mother also gets snockered. Kids getting drunk on Wednesday right before a mid-term. And parents going along with it. One mother, though wants to make sure that son graduates - worried that he is partying too much - it’s his last semester and has “to pass” or he won’t graduate. And we wonder why kids drink so much at college. The parents accept this as the normal culture and join right in??? Not exactly the best light for Drexel.</p>
<p>okay, this is ALMOST worse than DATE MY MOM…now that is a tacky show…what some moms do to look cool…egad</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up…after those reviews I think I’ll skip it! When I went back to my 25th reunion we stayed in the dorms. My husband was grossed out by the showers and said at his (Ivy League) U. the conditions would be much more civiilised…yea, right! Needless to say, when it was time to attend his 30th we stayed at the Sheraton so “we” will never know how civilised his dorm really was! Ha1</p>
<p>Nooooooo! There’s a time and place in a person’s life for dorm life, and this time ain’t it for me!
I must admit though, that the nursing home my aunt is in is VERY similar to dorm life. Shared bathrooms, bad food, lots of noise. Some people sleep through classes. Drugs. Ensure instead of alcohol though. (hope this doesn’t offend!;))</p>
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date my mom is hillarious…they are corny and tacky…its really funny…how they all flirt with the boys…hahhahhahah
i can imagine citygirlsmom in that show…you should join 
lol</p>
<p>that show was so funny last night half of my friend and I were rolling on the floor laughing…</p>
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<li>one girl’s mom is so drunk she is hugging a toilet and getting sick…</li>
<li>a dad doing a kegstand</li>
<li>hearing a son explain to his dad how to play flipcup</li>
<li>watching the puking mom’s daughter grind on one of the boy’s dads out at a bar.</li>
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<p>The best quote was when the spoiled little girl - puky’s D - says how she hates to have designer clothes without the designer handbag to match. That and when her mom describs the daughter a little bit spoiled…</p>
<p>We’ve found our new Sat night entertainment up here at college for as long as this shows lasts. Too bad this show wasn’t a couple of years ago when I was a freshman…oh and on the ABC family channel? There was nothing family about this show…</p>