How often does your Mum visit/call you at University

This is anon because I use my real name on here and I don't want her to find it.

My Mum visits me every 4 weeks and stays for the weekend. I am kind of finding that she is getting in the way because I play sports and then I have my work to do. She also rings everynight. I was wondering how much contact other people had with their parents.

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Reply 1

Fluent in Lies

Visits: Once.
Phones: About once a week at a max.

Reply 2

Talya

I had 2 visits in first semester and I'm going home after my exams for a few days.

I call her or she calls me 3 or 4 times a week.

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Reply 3

LisaPizza

Phones about once a week, if that, and i ring her about once a week to see how things are or tell her how an exam went or something. Never visit, but theyve been twice to pick me up, once at end of term and the other when i was sick.

Reply 4

Vohamanah

I phone my parent each weekend, although for previous years I hardly phoned them at all. Horrible me, but I've been religiously phoning them at least once a week this year. If I forget, they phone me on Sunday night.

I don't see them very much. I have a house over here now, so I don't go home for holidays, since I work and do voluntary work so am quite busy. I last saw them at xmas, will probably see them again in a couple of months.

My boyfriend, however, phones his parents every night and goes to see them about once a month (he's going next weekend without me for once... Sob...) so I guess its not unusual to see them quite often.

The girl living next to one of my friends in 1st year had her old maths teacher to stay for the weekend... Now THAT is bizarre! :s-smilie:

Reply 5

Schroedinger's Pandora

Visits: None
Phonecalls: None
Birthday gifts/cards/visits/phonecalls: None
Christmas gifts/cards/visits/phonecalls: None

You get the picture. :rolleyes:

Reply 6

lasttoiletroll

never visited, she has a busy life of her own. i go home every 4-6-8 weeks for appointments i have, so i see her then, and we speak on the phone every 1-2 weeks.

Reply 7

Nix!

Visits? Never, I wouldn't want my parents/mother visiting either.

Phones? Possibly once a month or once every two months. My parents don't feel the need to check in on me because they know I'm perfectly able to look after myself but sometimes it is nice to speak though. If I do need them for whatever reason they're only a phonecall away anyway.

Reply 8

rosetinted

My parents don't come and visit while I'm at uni, nor would I want them to. They helped me move my stuff here and will probably come and help me move it back for the summer, but no visiting, they work full time so they want their weekends to themselves.

I call them once in a while and my mom e-mails me a couple of times a week.

Reply 9

starless_dark

Last semester - parents visited the weekend before my birthday to drop off presents in December, visited some time before that to take me for a free meal and drop off stuff I'd left at home. Otherwise just for picking me up and dropping me off from home. Phoning - mum phones me more than I phone her - I only phone if I really need to. When I went home for xmas holidays I hated living at home, couldn't wait to get back out here to halls again. My dad emailed me a few times as well, but that was mostly to arrange meeting times.

Reply 10

Vohamanah

The only time I really see my parents is when I go home, mind. They have come over a couple of times to drop things off for me (furniture etc) but never stay longer than a couple of hours. We usually go out for a meal or something, but only about twice a year.

Reply 11

thatwhichiam

They never visit, I go home for the holidays. I ring them once a week and that's it, unless something big has happened they want to tell me/I want to tell them.

Reply 12

Sprockette

Well, in 1st year, my mum rang EVERY night - it drove me absolutely mad!? Then again, guess she missed her baby lol. I'm irish but studying in Edinburgh, so my parents don't come over much, about every 2 months for a weekend. My dad tries to arrange it for when theres a rugby match on :rolleyes:

He loves me really!!

Reply 13

woodlebert

never. just casual emails if somethings going on.

Reply 14

Luize

visits never really,
on the phone when we need to talk to each other. We do text each other about the football though.

Reply 15

Vohamanah

I do get urges to talk to my mum sometimes. Last phone call was along the lines of "Oh my God, mum! I put all my loose change in a coinstar machine and I had £47!!" :rolleyes:

I showed my dad how to send emails at xmas so he sometimes emails me, but half the time the are blank anyway and I have to phone him and ask what he was trying to say :biggrin:

Bless the oldies!

Reply 16

matt@internet

I talk to her maybe a few times a week on MSN. And she doesn't visit except when she takes me back to uni rather than me getting the train.

Reply 17

pbrown

Visits: none yet but hopefully getting one (a free meal out, that is) this term :smile:

Phone home every weekend and normally email during the week.

Reply 18

BurnOutOrFadeAway

i'm in my first year, mum came to drop me and all my stuff off, but didnt stay for more than a couple of hours. for the first couple of weeks she phoned nearly every night, now its once a week if she remembers
my mum and dad have been to visit me once, but that was only really because my dad works away and i hadn't seen him since august and wouldnt see him again till january for about 3 days before i came back to uni after xmas.
i'm at a uni about 6/7 hours drive away from home so i doubt they will visit me again till its time to come and get me for summer hols! but i will go home at easter.
i went home once last semester for the weekend but i doubt i will do that again unless i have to as theres not reall much point as with coach and train it took me 10 hours each way so theres not much point really as i'm only home for a day.

Reply 19

Shockley

My mum texts me nearly every day, and I go home maybe once every 2 weeks. The only thing is, I don't really enjoy going home because I have younger brothers and sisters and theres loads of shouting and they misbehave. I don't really relax because I don't have my own room so I feel like a guest. It doesn't feel like "home" anymore which is really sad.

My student halls are only a 15 minute drive away though. I chat to my mum on msn sometimes aswell.