So maybe you didn’t have a chance to visit your son or daughter at college during parents’ weekend, or it didn’t go the way you’d hoped. I know I had my own agenda: spend time with his roommate, take his friends out to dinner, sit in on a lecture or two, eat in the dining hall and mingle with other parents.
That’s when I realized it wasn’t all about me. I was hoping our visit would help me get familiar with my freshman’s daily routine. I’d be able to imagine him in those great halls of learning, eating farm-to-table food in the dining hall, and finally put faces to the names of the new friends he’d made.
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Kirsten Harrington 