<p>I want communication from my kids once a week. I’d be fine with a newsy e-mail, but I rarely get one. We agree on a general weekend time and call them. Older son was always forgetting to charge his phone, but we did hear from him at least once a month. We’d email him when he didn’t pick up and sometimes he’d respond to those emails. Younger son generally talks to us once a week. He’s dong a junior year abroad this year so if they have weekend trips he often doesn’t talk those weeks, on the other hand he seems to email pretty regularly with requests of one sort or other has he tries to organize applications for internships from a distance.</p>
<p>Only younger son does anything with facebook. He’s very savvy about letting us see only what he wants us to see.</p>