Tinkers wrote:
Article in guardian.
Advice for parents about making sure their DCs do stuff for themselves. Rather than doing it all for them.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... are_btn_twExplains the reporting elsewhere of Bristol contacting parents of first years to say that they should be particularly supportive of their DC, as the second year accommodation finding season will soon be upon us.
DD isn't applying there anyway, but neither I nor she have actually considered checking the websites of the ones she is applying to, to see what use they were intending to make of my contact details.
When DS1 was planning the end of first year move out of halls, we just got a message
from him, to say that he and a group of friends had found a house and could one of us act as guarantor, please? No contact at all from the university on the subject, nor would any of us have expected it.