For so long we have merely been add ons to our parents and in our first months of college we work to forge our own identities without them. Parents weekend pushes our old selves into our new world. We are forced to compromise between the people we were and the people we are.
The parents were uncomfortable in our spaces whereas when we return home we are comfortable there. Because we are the ones changing we force those who were used to us as we were (our parents) to adapt to the new person who can do laundry, feed themselves, and operate sans authority. I assume my reaction would be the same as the parents on parents weekend were I to return home only to find that my family had moved.
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