facetext_comm=Marcia Bryant: Initially, I was a touch concerned. But because I know my daughter,... you know, we talk by phone every day, just about every day when I can find her in her room, but other than that, no, no concerns.
Steven Bryant: Nowadays with telephone, e-mail, cell phones, fax machines, and what the school has, which is quite enjoyable, the photo of the day. At times you will see your child on the Internet, so that is enjoyable. Then you tell everybody, tell the grandparents, the in-laws, and relatives or what have you, and everybody gets a nice charge out of it.
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May Tran: I'm not concerned about that. I was, actually, before he came over, but I could contact him over the phone almost every other night, and I just checked with his timetable, the courses, the lessons of the timetable, and so I just try to catch him, talking to him after his lessons. And we always communicate with each other on the Internet. So I think no problem with contacting at all.
David Tran: Yeah, I think that the age of the modern communications, with e-mails and other things, must be extremely easy, as though you are in touch almost - probably more often than if he were living in the same place at home.
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Neil Gerald: Well, it's a bit of a trade off. You definitely lose contact in terms of the day to day - having them there every day, and a lot of interactions. But what we found is that the interactions that we do have are more quality. There less discipline, do that, less nagging, pick up this, get your homework done, because the kids are on their own, and when we are with them, we seem to have a higher level of communication and interaction. So we've been very pleased with that. We didn't think about that when we were - we were just worried about the absence. But it does change the relationship in kind of a positive way, from our experience with our older son, who was at home through high school.