Morning check in

It reminds me a bit of the Hotel Marigold morning registration, it is a lovely idea and reassures your children that you are OK.

I think morning texts are a great idea.

What if you just plain forget to do it?

Then your offsrping, or whoever, text you, presumably.

It is a very useful way to reassure people. When my DD went home with her baby after spending the first six weeks with us, I was always on tenterhooks until I saw either a text from her or a FB status update. And TBH I'm still a little like that now, just because it's just her and the baby, no-one else there. I think of that story a few months ago where that little tot was picked up by an off-duty PCSO and his wife - she was toddling along the road taking herself to nursery because she couldn't wake mummy up. Mummy (a single mum) was dead, it turned out . That gave me nightmares for a while.

Elder DS does a lot of driving and especially during the winter months I always worry until I know he's safe (never stop being a mother do you!), so I often send a casual text about something unimportant when I know he should be out of the car and it's so reassuring to get a reply

Yes always - not only children but mum and brothers and friends - especially those alone

Badenkate, I too have a DS who drives year round with his job. I have a DD who travels along a particularly busy stretch of motorway daily, they are 34 and 30 respectively. I have learned to back off in so many ways and let them live their lives but I worry about all this travelling and bless them they usually let me know when they've arrived at destination. You're right you never stop worrying. Someone told me years ago to just teach your children right from wrong, show them and tell them you love them and hope for the best!

I think it's a good idea and I would do it if I wasn't Billy no_mates and only one sister who gets up late and lives many miles away.

I am not so frail yet that my daughters need a text every morning but I usually have some form of communication with them during most days on Facebook.

I always write something on Facebook, no reason, just like to catch up in the mornings, before I start my day

Keep in touch daily with family via facebook, texts and Whatsapp!

My brother who is in his 80s and widowed and lives alone contacts his daughter by Whatsapp daily, to reassure her

I might start sending my DD an "I'm still alive" text, every morning when she's in her morning meeting. She'll be so pleased. Or not.

Well, I suppose if you think you may pop off and only be discovered, half eaten by Alsations, several weeks later, it's a good idea! I had to resort to having one of those rape alarms in my bedside drawer. As although I live in a house full of people, they wouldn't notice if I was dead until they were sitting at the table with their knives and forks in their hands and realise there was no food in front of them! Joking aside, it came in useful once (so mock me not!) as I had a reaction to a drug I'd been given when I was ill and collapsed. Pressed my alarm and OH came running by which time I was barely breathing. Dialled 999 and was resuscitated by paramedic and shipped off to hospital to have the drug flushed through. So without it I wouldn't be here typing this long and interesting!!! post! I think if a text each day reassures your family, who may worry about you otherwise, why not.

I exchange texts with my daughter every morning - but that's to ensure that she's out of bed in time to get to work. She has a history of sleeping through mutiple alarms!

I think I'm with jingl's cryptic subtext on this one.
For one thing, my DD's phone is frequently without any charge on it (her excuse for not replying to invitations etc), and in any case I suspect she rarely looks at her phone.
But more importantly, there's the underlying assumption that we are burdens to our children, to be worried about. It's a paradox that some things that we do in the belief that they decrease worry, actually increase it.
No news is good news!

I think if I messaged my DD every morning, it would be an unwanted interruption to her routine. I know she is super busy getting ready for work and getting her 2 year old ready for nursery. I just assume that no news is good news.

my family see me on facebook in the morning, if not someone sends me a message on FB or rings me to check all OK

Me too Wot !!!

I have to be cryptic ja. #onestrikeandimout. #psandqs

Dd1 tweets endlessly. She travels a lot to horrible places. So I look at her tweets and know she's still alive. She's with us at the moment but gone out sea fishing. I'm not worried as we are in Grace Darling country and I've seen the lifeboats practising.

I sometimes don't hear from my sons for months on end! Same goes for DHs offspring, apart from the one we see weekly when we go to mind GS. My lads would wonder what was up if I started texting them daily.

Never to family, but always to a friend.