How do your children most often communicate with you?

Poll: How do your children most often communicate with you?

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My daughter calls us at least 3 times a day. She is always worried about me and my husband. On the other hand, my son hasn't talked to us in over a year. He moved far away and never told us. He is mad that we still talk to his ex-wife. He was the cause of the divorce, and she did a remarkable job raising my grandsons.I love her and will never stop talking to her and hurt my grandsons. It's hurtfull that my son doesn't appreciate all the help we gave him.
 
My sons live in other states, so of course we communicate more by tech devices--but they still send Cards for special days. My daughter and i share a house. So we talk daily in person, but we also use messenger and text when she's at work or i'm in town for a medical appointment to keep each other posted since i usually drive her to work and pick her up to come home.
 
I text regularly with my kids and their spouses, also talk on the phone, use email to give each other info (like when DD requests we pick up the kids from school because she'll be tied up), and see each other often.

Love the short snippets we send each other via text.
 
My sons all live in CA. Two of them call me or text. The other one has currently unmedicated bipolar disorder and hates me. If he ever gets medicated, I think his delusions will disappear. He has been medicated in the past, and it helped him a lot. For a long time, I was on the hook for giving him Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. He went to the ER to be diagnosed. I didn't drink during my pregnancy and I didn't drink for years before and decades after I had the boys. My idea of heavy drinking is having a glass of wine or an Irish coffee a couple times a year, if it does effect my medications. Anyway, he dropped the FAS and is on to other illnesses, none of which I could have caused.

Anyway, I'm glad he moved to CA because he would get in rages and throw things and throw away our possessions and scream at us. The other self (medicated) is totally different. He only acts like that with immediate family members, but it is scary. My husband and I both miss him terribly, but it is the "good" son we miss, not the enraged one.

My daughter lives with me. She is a wonderful woman, and I heartily appreciate her sticking by me.
 
WheatenLover said:
My sons all live in CA. Two of them call me or text. The other one has currently unmedicated bipolar disorder and hates me. If he ever gets medicated, I think his delusions will disappear. He has been medicated in the past, and it helped him a lot. For a long time, I was on the hook for giving him Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. He went to the ER to be diagnosed. I didn't drink during my pregnancy and I didn't drink for years before and decades after I had the boys. My idea of heavy drinking is having a glass of wine or an Irish coffee a couple times a year, if it does effect my medications. Anyway, he dropped the FAS and is on to other illnesses, none of which I could have caused.

Anyway, I'm glad he moved to CA because he would get in rages and throw things and throw away our possessions and scream at us. The other self (medicated) is totally different. He only acts like that with immediate family members, but it is scary. My husband and I both miss him terribly, but it is the "good" son we miss, not the enraged one.

My daughter lives with me. She is a wonderful woman, and I heartily appreciate her sticking by me.
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I'm so sorry for your and your son's pain. :cry:
Glad you have a good relationship with your daughter and two other sons. For everyone's sake, I hope he stumbles into a good doc or program and takes the meds he needs.
 
We share the old family homestead with our youngest daughter, husband and college attending grandkids. Others live 10-15 minutes away, and the rest live within an hour or two drive except one grandson and wife who live on the west coast. They are our social network which is enjoyable as most of our friends have passed on.

They all get along well with each other so it's a pleasurable winding down of our (my wife and I ) life.
 
I chose the text option, but what we actually use most is our Apple i-Messaging app. We each message each other, and we have one that is like a family messaging chat, that myself and my three kids are in.
When we want to share something with everyone, we use that chat, and otherwise, we just IM whichever person we want to chat with.

My middle son will often message me just to ask how I am doing , and to say that he loves and misses me. The rest of us usually only write when we want to say something or ask a question.

I also keep in touch with my family and friends with Facebook, and I like that because we often share more pictures on there than just by the IM‘s we share.
If something is really important, then we use the phone or sometimes do the Facetime video calls. We also share location from our phones, so we always know where each other is at.
 
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