1. Jeong So Ra
2. Students stay connected with parents
3. College students being away from their parents can contact with many technology strategy like text messages or online chat. It is different scene from past. which is caused by technology improvement. it will increase number of cases that technological ways contribute human's life.
Sometimes, some experts are concerned about dependency of teenagers to their parents or weak self-esteem that may be brought about by frequent contact between them. But I think that people who are able to lean on are very important for college student in long distance from their home.
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CHICAGO -- Nineteen-year-old Taylor Matichak calls her mom several times a day, in between the flurry of text messages they send one another discussing academics, social life or just daily chit-chat.
Though the sophomore at the University of Missouri in Columbia spends most of the year more than 300 miles from her family‘s Plainfield, Illinois, home, the distance seems to evaporate with technology.
“I like it because we can stay close,” said the teen, who says she initiates most of the calls and texts.
It’s profoundly different from the college days of her mother, 52-year-old Debbie Matichak, who remembers waiting in long lines at her dormitory pay phone to make the obligatory Sunday collect call home.
Keeping in touch with parents was more expensive and time-consuming when she attended the University of Denver three decades ago. But as college students prepare to descend on campuses in the coming weeks, many are finding that with the ease of cell phones, unlimited text message plans, e-mail, Facebook, and Skype, they can have near-constant access to mom and dad.
“It‘s changed the experience of being away at college,” said James Boyle, president of College Parents of America, based in Arlington, Va. “A generation ago, when your parents said goodbye and drove away, many (students) didn’t see their parents again until Thanksgiving.”
But some experts fear this communication shift could hamper the independence of older teens at a time when they traditionally come into their own.
“Sometimes these students are not being as autonomous or self-sufficient as they should be,” said Barbara Hofer, psychology professor at Middlebury College in Vermont and co-author of the book “The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up,” which is being released this month.
“Staying close is different than being dependent,” she said.
Her 2008 study of students at Middlebury and the University of Michigan found that students on average contacted their parents 13 times a week, mainly via cell phone calls and emails, though text messaging and Skype seem to be growing in popularity.
Another problem dips into academic dishonesty: Hofer said one in five students reported having their parents edit their papers online, a practice that might violate the honor codes of many colleges and universities. While helping a child with a paper at the kitchen table in junior high or high school might be appropriate, sending a paper back and forth for editing can amount to the parent doing all the work, which means the student isn’t learning to do it alone, Hofer said.
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