dc off to university, how do your parents react?

[NoahVale]

my dm was saying she is left out as she doesnt text.
she bought her stuff, assuming that I hadnt.

feel slightly taken over by Her needs.
How can I come to terms with Her ott reaction.
worried so much the day we drove dd there. called her in the evening, to no avail as it happens as dd is famously bad at answering her mobile, as she would be with hew friends/experiences going on

[NoahVale]

jsut realised i should hav eput this in higher educaiton
probably

[Seeline]

Teach her to text? My Dmum is 80 next year and she's just mastered it.

[Yorkieheaven]

Well we had a bloody party!

Tell your mother to text.

[ImperialBlether]

I assume she meant her daughter hadn't sent a text to the OP's mum.

[NoahVale]

good idea,
let her learn to text.
hey if my DH can master it anyone can

[GoblinLittleOwl]

When my daughter went to university my mother, by then in a nursing home, gave her a 'shilling'(10p) to spend on what she liked, closed her hand over it and said 'Have a wonderful time and don't do drugs.' Many years later we still remember it with great affection, while wondering how she knew to say 'do drugs' rather than 'have' or 'take drugs'.

[KatherineMumsnet]

We're just going to move this to higher education at the OP's request.

[trafalgargal]

A shilling was 5p , two shillings was 10 p