2 months and a vacation period not talking to his son?
My wife talks to our college daughter pretty much daily, and we usually have a few texts throughout the day.
Different parenting styles, I suppose.
I always find myself checking Life 360 to see where my kids are at their universities.
We have grand kids on both sides of America in college.
My wife texts them once a day at least.
I text about once a week, and their uncle and his wife text them at least once a week.
Their answers are often a couple of 2-3 words of 2-3 letters.
When I was in college, my Mother joked that I called and came home when I need to do laundry and devour her meals.
Family and whatever supposed friends never talked to him. Family wasn’t concerned he didn’t come home during break? He must have been a real loner with mental problems who decided to end it all.
Ditto, i bug my kids *all grown adults* at least once or twice a week.
That is odd. My parents were more hands-off when I went to college but I was 25 when I started, had already been through a Navy enlistment (GI Bill was paying for most of my college and I was working half-time), and I was still talking to them about weekly. It wouldn’t take two months of no-contact before my dad would’ve got in his truck, drove the 120 miles to the U, and banged on my door. My dad would’ve also noticed that something smelled dead when he got there and called 911. What the hell is wrong with people?
He did talk to the police.
The article didn’t say that he had only done so just before the police went to the university.
As a matter of fact, the article indicates that the police didn’t check the room until after the body was found due to the stench.
I rarely called or texted my kid at college. Sometimes months would pass without us talking or texting.
But I knew he was all right because he was in constant contact with his siblings, friends, and roommates. So I never had to worry.
Maybe this father also let his son have some space. But the son was in a single room. I’ve sometimes wondered about this risk in a single room. Surrounded by other students, but entirely alone, a student could get lost in the crowd. And then no one would notice that student missing.
Sons are very different from daughters, as well. Almost every mom of a grown son that I know speaks of not hearing from them for weeks at a time. Then again, the sons whom I reference are heterosexual.
Daily? That’s called helicopter parenting.