<p>Once a week for us, during either his UG years or his graduate school years.</p>
<p>We wish there are more phone calls or email exchanges. But we think it is better for us not to overdo it. He has his own life there (which is thousands of miles away from us) and we had better not “disturb” his daily life too much, I think.</p>
<p>A coworker once told me that the central problem for his family is that the topics he (as a parent) would like to talk about is not the topics his S/D would have any interests in it. I think he’s very honest when he said this.</p>