Is anyone else treated like a child when they come home from uni for the summer?
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Re: Is anyone else treated like a child when they come home from uni for the summer?One thing that applies to me once I get home, is late night partying is a no-go. If I want to be up and about past even 10pm, it better be whilst I'm at uni and not at home (in London - where my parents fear for my safety more).
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Re: Is anyone else treated like a child when they come home from uni for the summer?It's OK, providing you've got the staff. My parents are so unobliging as butler/maid.(Original post by . . .)
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Re: Is anyone else treated like a child when they come home from uni for the summer?And that's how it should be.(Original post by zara55)
It's OK, providing you've got the staff. My parents are so unobliging as butler/maid. -
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Re: Is anyone else treated like a child when they come home from uni for the summer?LOL, yes. Although I wouldn't say no to having a maid or two.(Original post by . . .)
And that's how it should be.
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Re: Is anyone else treated like a child when they come home from uni for the summer?I think my parents feel weird around me, therefore I don't really get treated as a kid. Never had such treatments since I was 5 or so. I'm actually struggling to remember when I last had a hug or kiss from them.
When I'm at their house, then I'm treated as just another guest though I could help myself to anything I want. I guess it goes both ways when they visit my house.
Sometimes when I see them treat my kids, all the hugs, kisses, attention and all that usual parent/grandparent stuff I try to think back on what happened when I was my kids age and how they used to treat me..... I can recall sitting on a teacher's lap, I can recall even once sitting on Margaret Thatcher's lap but never on either of my parents' and every now and then I have the strongest urge to tell them to go to hell, but then I remember I do need their services as a babysitter LOL.
Strangely, these days they hug and kiss my OH but with me it is usually just a handshake, my mum would ask my OH if she wants to go out shopping together or do stuff together, sometimes she even pays for what my OH wants. I can't remember the last time my parents bought me anything. -
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Re: Is anyone else treated like a child when they come home from uni for the summer?I'm 22 and my mother is extremely over-protective - for example, if I'm driving to my boyfriend's house (which is roughly a 25 minute drive including a 10 minute stretch on the motorway) I have to text her when I get there
