ME: How’s your daughter?
HE: Well, she’s undergoing a tough transition right now since she’s away from home for the first time.
ME: Really?
HE: Sure, she’s at college. So she’s undergoing a pretty dramatic separation from us. She feels upset a lot of the time, and although she’s making new friends, she often misses home and feels isolated in her new environment.
ME: Wow. She told you all of this?
HE: No, I read about it on her MySpace.
At the last job, while we were discussing how to help a youth, it wasn’t out of the ordinary to have a social worker or PO share their assessments with us. In the last couple of years, I noticed that the assessments included a review of the kid’s Facebook or MySpace profiles as well as psych and medical records. It also wasn’t unusual to have the conversation go something like, “Yeah, she’s running again.” - “Has anyone heard from her at all?” - “No, but she signed into her MySpace account yesterday so she’s still alive.”
Ooph. Different times for sure.
Aww thats sad
THAT is classic.
heh.
hi greg,
that’s a good one....!!
Heh, well at least she communicates through some form. Sometimes it’s easier to tell your parents what’s going on in a more oblique way. I remember when I was a teenager, when I was mad at my parents I’d leave my diary lying on the coffee table for them to accidentally “see.” Somehow it was easier than telling them directly.
I do not know whether to laugh or cry with this entry.It just proves one point:the internet has its upsides too. At least the father knows what her daughter is going through.
This might not be your style, but this sounds like a shoe in for Reader’s Digest “Life in These United States.” Come on, you know you want the $200.