Perhaps they should provide special rooms where mom can breast feed her precious one last time.
Maybe it's actually a new stage of development. Instead of child, adolescent, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age we could have: childhood, extended childhood, childhood undocking (may take 2-5 years), emerging adulthood. --Mike On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > The NY Times has an article on the parents of students who > are moving into dorms right now. While "helicoptor parents" > hover over their students, "velcro parents" seem to be unable > to unattach themselves from their children and a number of > colleges now have put into place activities and programs for > parents who never can say goodbye. For the article, see: > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/education/23college.html?_r=1&th&emc=th > > Quoting from the article: > > |Moving their students in usually takes a few hours. Moving on? > |Most deans can tell stories of parents who lingered around campus > |for days. At Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., a mother and > |father once went to their daughter’s classes on the first day of the > |semester and trouped to the registrar’s office to change her schedule, > |recalled Beverly Low, the dean of first-year students. > > Have any Tipsters had parents sit in on their class on the first day > (or first few days)? I think that I had that happen once long ago. > > And: > > |Some undergraduate officials see in parents’ separation anxieties > |evidence of the excesses of modern child-rearing. “A good deal > |of it has to do with the evolution of overinvolvement in our students’ > |lives,” said Mr. Dougharty of Grinnell. “These are the baby-on-board > |parents, highly invested in their students’ success. They do a lot of > |living vicariously, and this is one manifestation of that.” > > Does anyone's school run workshops on "Parents' Seperation Anxiety"? > > Finally, this phenomenon, it seems to me, to be peculiar to certain > social classes in the U.S. I doubt that one sees much of this kind of > behavior at commuter colleges (though I admit to having seen something > comparable at one school). I haven't had this happen in any of the > classes that I have taught for "adults" (i.e., people who have went into > the workforce after high school and have returned to college, often > after many years). > > Has anyone seen this for students in graduate programs? > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: tipsl...@gmail.com. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f4720fb&n=T&l=tips&o=4364 > or send a blank email to > leave-4364-13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f472...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4373 or send a blank email to leave-4373-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
