No better way to get those kids in line than shaming them in a national newspaper!

Every college kid’s favorite Google hit: mom bitching them out in the New York Times for missing dinner:

“She tells me she’s coming from school, so I have dinner waiting for her, but then I never hear from her again,” said Wanda Shenkman of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., whose daughter, Erica, is a sophomore at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. “I don’t find out until the next day that a friend picked her up at the train station and that she went there to spend the night.”

Although really, Erica, that’s just not considerate. How hard is it to pick up the phone, with your mother sitting home worried sick?

Apparently kids come home from college and frustrate the hell out of their parents. Who knew? (Er, my Dad, for one). Kudos to the New York Times for picking up on this new and exciting trend. In other news, is it me or does Drew Beal sound hot?

Home for Holidays, Rocking the Nest [NYT]

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