‘Bama Mama’ offers paid service to parents of Alabama college students doing laundry, groceries, and cleaning their room: ‘Isn’t this infantilizing?’

Isn’t college where young people are supposed to develop their independence? It isn’t uncommon to be kind of useless when you are 18. It is traditionally a time to take those first steps into a semi-adult world, but adulthood, like any other skill, can only be figured out through experience that even a lot of …
Seguir leyendo ‘Bama Mama’ offers paid service to parents of Alabama college students doing laundry, groceries, and cleaning their room: ‘Isn’t this infantilizing?’

54-year-old mom scolds her 19-year-old daughter’s roommate for being uncomfortable with her sleeping over in their dorm room: ‘I don’t know her mom well enough to want to sleep in the same room with her’

She literally has a hotel room that her daughter could spend the night in. Overnight guests can be a contentious debate amongst roommates. When you have your own bedroom in a rented house or apartment, it’s a lot easier to have a parent, siblings, friend, or romantic partner stay overnight without causing much commotion to …
Seguir leyendo 54-year-old mom scolds her 19-year-old daughter’s roommate for being uncomfortable with her sleeping over in their dorm room: ‘I don’t know her mom well enough to want to sleep in the same room with her’