Question from a college frosh

ucsd_ucla_dad
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:35:03 +0000

…recent college graduates get their annual performance reviews, if they’re not happy with them, parents are placing direct calls to their kids managers to complain.

Wow - that’s unbelievable. If a parent ever contacted me in this regard for an employee of mine all it would do would be to possibly hurt the employee - not help them at all. If I thought the employee was part of the decision to have the parent call, similar to what the OP is having her mom do in the OP’s case, that employee would probably end up at the head of the list when there’s a need to reduce the workforce.

This illustrates the point of where does it stop - when does the parent decide it’s time to let the little one’s wings have some exercise and fly mostly on their own so they’re not stuck in the nest unable to fend for themselves forever? For most of us much of this happens when they head off to college or are otherwise out of HS. Apparently for some parents even post-college isn’t an adequate break point for them. I feel sorry for these ‘kids’ who will either never learn to grow up and become responsible for themselves or who’ll harbor some discontent with their meddling parents if it’s forced upon them.