How connected should I be with my parents?

How connected should I be with my parents?

It really varies. Some students are use to talking to their parents once a day or three times a day or maybe five or six times a day and there are some parents who are cool. with that they're like yeah man my kid loves me and I love being here for my kid because for the past 18 years I've been that rock and they want to be that rock. But I think it's really important for a student to help their parents to understand that I need to solve my problems because there are to many parents the helicopter parent who want to solve the student's problems. And if your parents are one of those problems or want to solve your problems it's really important that you say hey you know I need to be able to do this myself. And for the parents who are listening to this it's really important for them to ask their student what are you going to do to deal with these issues. I'm really empowering them to take control and they could point them to the right directions to the people in resources on campus, but I think it's really important that student to figure out how to deal with the tough stuff because that's really what college is about in so many ways.