Fine, Kids, Call Your Mom Five Times a Day!

“I’m a 23-year old undergraduate at a small liberal arts college. In my view, there’s nothing inherently wrong with having a very close relationship with your parents. Calling your parents five or six times a day — why not, especially if you consider them your friends? Just because the Boomers (and the Gen X-ers, to a certain extent) had bad relationships with their parents doesn’t mean we need to repeat that experience.”
 — This comment, in response to Terry Castle’s essay on what it’s like to teach the current crop of parent-attached young people, is pretty amazing! It’s gonna be a long couple decades.