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Does anyone else do this? How do I stop?!?
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<blockquote data-quote="nlj" data-source="post: 634417" data-attributes="member: 17650"><p>I think we all do this.</p><p>My son has a cell phone but it's very rarely charged or switched on.</p><p>I do try not to worry when I haven't been able to get in touch with him for a few weeks. I know from experience that he's always fine, just hasn't given me a second thought.</p><p>I can really empathise with your horror at your co-worker coming in with that shocking news. I do scan the news for any stories about my son's community. </p><p>But I think we must know that, if anything had happened to our sons, then we would be found somehow and told. </p><p>It's too simplistic to say "don't worry" though, we can't help ourselves can we?</p><p>I also don't think this is necessarily just about difficult children. I think this can be just a general parent thing. I worried sick when my oldest girl when away to university, when my younger son passed his driving test, when my youngest went away on an extended school trip, when my middle girl went camping to France with her boyfriend.</p><p>I don't really worry about my son any more that I have worried about the others at different stages. It's just that the other four are easier to get hold of and easier to check up on (which isn't always a good thing - especially having access to the shocking FB page of my younger son's exploits when he was away at university!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlj, post: 634417, member: 17650"] I think we all do this. My son has a cell phone but it's very rarely charged or switched on. I do try not to worry when I haven't been able to get in touch with him for a few weeks. I know from experience that he's always fine, just hasn't given me a second thought. I can really empathise with your horror at your co-worker coming in with that shocking news. I do scan the news for any stories about my son's community. But I think we must know that, if anything had happened to our sons, then we would be found somehow and told. It's too simplistic to say "don't worry" though, we can't help ourselves can we? I also don't think this is necessarily just about difficult children. I think this can be just a general parent thing. I worried sick when my oldest girl when away to university, when my younger son passed his driving test, when my youngest went away on an extended school trip, when my middle girl went camping to France with her boyfriend. I don't really worry about my son any more that I have worried about the others at different stages. It's just that the other four are easier to get hold of and easier to check up on (which isn't always a good thing - especially having access to the shocking FB page of my younger son's exploits when he was away at university!). [/QUOTE]
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