There's a MNer in this piece...

[WendyWeber]

...anybody spot her?

AlliBubbles

I know helicopter parents and based on what I have just read you are not one of them.

I would have done the shop for DS, not every week but something to make sure that on top of classes, student debt etc., that he knew he had basics in the cupboard.

Now the skiiing thing............you were right, but that would have taken me forever a while to agree to although you were right.

Well done you.

it's an interesting idea to pay for supermarket deliveries when your child is at university.

My parents encouraged me to stay at home when I went to university - I never did any shopping, never paid any bills, no cooking, no washing. Does that make my parents helicopter parents? I don't know.

Mother attending job interview?! Noooooooo!

I am kind of yearning for the day when my distinctly hands-off parenting can get even more so, myself.

I was in Normandy alibubbles, home of the well-ripened Livarot and tripes a la mode de Caen
The uni canteen did a mean couscous aux sept legumes too
I learned ALL my love of proper food from that year, I think your dd is a very fortunate young woman to be studying out there for longer
(PS my parents got my father's boss to telephone the halls of residence and made him ask if I had been abducted . Not so much helicopter parenting as exocet of shame! This was pre mobile days though)