It only took two weeks on campus for our 18-year-old to get coronavirus. I thought I was prepared, but I had a lot to learn.
, said the key is for parents not to project their own stress onto their college kids.
“Don’t assume that what would be hard and stressful for you about this is what's stressful for them,” Gilboa said. “It's easy for us to look at what they are experiencing and know how we would feel. But what we can't know is how they feel, so the first thing to do is just ask. And have empathy for whatever they're experiencing without needing to feel responsible for fixing it, because you can't.
“We feel guilty as parents about this because we overestimate what we can control. So, because we think we ought to be able to control when and how our kids stay well or get sick, or when and how they're cared for, we have this inflated sense of responsibility,” Gilboa said. “Then, when we're faced with the reality of all the things we can't control, our immediate reaction is guilt.
Meanwhile, this week our daughter, a senior at a large state university, informed us that one of her apartment-mates has coronavirus. Our daughter got tested and, fortunately, she is negative. But, you can bet that a pulse oximeter is already in the mail to her.
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