So as many of you know, my daughter is home from college for the summer. My husband and I are having a hard time adjusting to her being an adult that lived on her own for a year, she’s having trouble remembering that she has someone to answer to.

One of her friends had his 21st birthday yesterday and they decided to go to the casino to celebrate. The one locally requires them to be 21, but since not all of the group are 21 they decided to go to one 2 hours away. She did ask if she could go, so it’s not that we didn’t know where she was. But I was up all night waiting for a call “hi we got here” “hi we’re on our way home”. The way that she communicated when she was in high school. Her cell died, and she figured as long as we gave her permission and knew where she was, all was good.

So am I being overbearing? Expecting too much? It is very rare when she doesn’t keep in contact, so when she doesn’t, like last night, I’m positive that something has happened. So by the time she comes home I’m frantic and rip her a new one. I know that’s wrong, I really don’t mean to. How do you deal with these new adults? My oldest one did not prepare me for this.