I'll tell you what. When my kids don't call me once in awhile, it makes me nuts! I gotta change my paradigm on this topic. It would be easy to come up with a list of reasons why I might personally like or need to hear from my offspring. We could dabble in the idea of feeling loved, or appreciated or that even something we had to say might be helpful or encouraging, but we won't. That's all the standard stuff. Oh sure, I connect my kids not calling me to them not liking me or not giving a rats ass about me, but I seriously doubt that is literally true. If being a butthead from time to time get's you taken out of the loop, then I wouldn't be calling them either.

I guess some parents actually run the show that way, but that is not me. Shortcomings, plans gone awry, the unforeseen or the