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untangle family life. Episode 237, how do I support my homesick college kid?

You know, I talk about this every year because I worry about it now with a child, my first child in high school.

Like, I feel like time is just moving so quickly with a kid in high school, first child in high school, that it'll go by so quickly.

So I feel for those parents who have dropped their kids off for college. I can't imagine that day, Lisa. You've been there. I have been there. And now I have a daughter who is a senior in college. It is so weird. It is so weird. And what you said, Rina, about like time slipping away, like one of the things, I remember somebody saying to me when my kids were little were little and I really found this and I don't know if you found this, it feels like time actually speeds up as they age. And I don't know if it's because, you know, when they're little, like, little kids are really cute, but like, you know how they can be kind of tedious and boring sometimes. Oh yes. Like, you know, the hours seem really long. And then you know this,

right? As they get older, the work of parenting usually goes down. And so then time just seems

to go faster and faster. And I have a daughter who started high school, just like your son

started high school. And I feel like she just kind of lives with us. But it's not that much work. And so it's true. Like as that time comes for them to leave, you do feel like a, you know, sands through the hourglass, like grasping for the moments with them. Yeah. I'm thrilled we're doing this so early in the season because I think even though my kid isn't there yet, I want to know how to

deal with this before it even starts. I want to read you the letter we got. Dear Lisa and Rina,

thank you so much for your podcast. It's made such a difference in supporting my son through high school.

Now I need your help more than ever. He's been at college for two weeks and is unbelievably homesick.

He calls me crying every single night and

says he can't find anyone to hang out with. I want to support him, but don't want to be in touch so

often that he doesn't connect with people at his own college. On top of this, my younger son is missing

his brother. But if I'm honest, feeling a little overwhelmed by how much his older

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