How often do your adult children call?

DD once a week with sometimes texts in between. DS also once a week unless he wants something. Sometimes it’s a FaceTime call and sometimes just phone. I know they are there if I’ve got to tell them something or need something , but I know they are all busy.

My two sons abroad we text regularly and face time every month or so. Thank goodness for modern technology at least we are always able too get in touch quickly.

I see that the question in the heading is How often do you adult children call you? Not How often do you call your adult children? If I haven't heard from either of mine for about a week, I phone them. Why not? They have demanding jobs and I have far more time on my hands than they do, so why should the onus be on them to make contact?

PS To be fair, we do have a family WhatsAp group with their partners as well.

One son he is an only child
He calls maybe once a month cause I panic lol
We have a group WhatsApp me husband son and Dil

Son does message me once or so a week off his own bat. I tend to send a little message Monday to Friday (don't like to interrupt weekend time ) we see them every three weeks for about two hours. They live about 40 mins from us
I don't ring them ...at all.
I don't want to be interfering or interrupting.

Number 4 daughter, calls about 4 times a day, and can stay on the phone for an average of around an hour at a time of until she has managed to totally flatten my battery! She only lives a ten min walk away, but cannot visit due to lock down and her high risk of Covid keyworkers job.
Number 3 Daughter only calls when in a crisis, or she needs something, she prefares Messenger to actual phone calls, and suffers from a rare long term condition which can effect her eyesight and mobility. It's rare that she ever visits us, but we can be with her if needed within a 15min drive away.
Number 2 Daughter messages most days, visits once or twice a week, and spends much of the day with us, she is my Carer, helps me to have a good hot shower, does the general cleaning and housework, and takes me to any appointments I may have. I cannot visit her home at the moment due to access problems since she moved in just over a year ago, we are now looking to get this sorted once the Covid restrictions are lifted, and installing a more disability friendly second access into her property.
Number 1 Daughter seldom rings or Messages, I follow her on Facebook sometimes, but she tends to live in a small world of her own, and we only see her at family gatherings or Christmas and Birthdays, she lives about an hours drive away from us, but tends to value her privacy. Sadly her marriage is not a happy one, and her husband can be quite controlling at times. If I call her, I can hear him shouting abuse in the background. Hes a heavy drinker, he believes that I always favour my other Grandchildren more than the ones who are his, which it's totally untrue, they all get treated the same, the only things that they sometimes miss out on is totally his own doing, when he forbids them to attend any family gatherings with their Cousins who are of a similar age, which is his own fault not mine!

Pre Covid no 1 son phones every 4 weeks: since Covid & death of my mum every week
Pre Covid no 2 son FT every 3 weeks: since Covid, FT’s twice a week

All mine check in on the family Messenger group every morning to briefly report they're ok.
My son messages me personally daily, telephones once a week or if there's something urgent and facetimes every couple of weeks or so.
Older daughter messages me personally most days, rings a couple of times a week and facetimes once a week. Younger daughter lives with me.

Whatsapp seems to work very well with my children. It is quick and informal.

eldest daughter and I have phone chat ever weekend. I know she is very busy working from home during weekdays, so would not dream of trying to contact her except in real emergency. My Son, usually rings me every 2-3 weeks, this is so good for him, I know he detests talking on the phone - and I usually spend all the time chatting away to him. My two youngest daughter do not think to phone me, I ring them on alternative weekends. No. 2 daughter lives close by and comes in to see me once a week at least.

DD1, can be many times a day, but normally once a day. DD2 is more likely to stop at the house if she's passing which can be once or twice a week.

My daughter and I FaceTime each other about 3 times a week.

Eldest daughter about once a week whilst driving home from work. She does the same with her father. Also do group video call with younger daughter.
Younger daughter, video call two or three times a week, also group video chat with elder daughter as above.
They also take turns doing my grocery shopping so I see them on the doorstep whoever’s turn it is.
Son, either driving home from work or a video chat as he’s cooking dinner for himself and girlfriend while she’s studying. Once or twice a week.
Son lives further away so haven’t seen him in person for months but hoping for a garden visit once it’s allowed.

It depends. Always once a week. I have 2 boys & I think girls ring Mums more often.
My younger son probably about once or twice a week but hehas been on the phone daily this last week as they are getting 2 more cats having lost one of theirs & the remaining one is getting on a bit. He wants advice on socialising it with the old cat etc. They don't get them until next week when they have had all the jabs done. I am cat lady to be fair.
Elder son rings on his way home from work stuck on M25 at least once a week too.
They both live about 30 mins drive away so I see them regularly too- well until we went into lockdown.
I haven't seen elder son's children since before Christmas when they were due to come to us but at the last minute our area was put into lockdown. My younger son brought family to stand at end of our drive & swop presents- it was awful not being able to hug DGC. Elder son is coming over this weekend with at least one DGC- I do understand that the boys are older ( one out at work now) so have a lot of commitments & Grandma comes after football (they both play twice at weekends.)They are old enough to pick up a phone now anyway.

Once in a blue moon.

Dd only phones if she wants something or urgent.
But she does text mainly.

Ds hardly ever phones, but usually answers emails if I contact him.

Girls daily and boy weekly. I’m very happy that they all feel able to tell me anything and everything .... but sometimes have to do a whoa, stop there... I really don’t need to know that

My DD calls in 4/5 times a week she is in my bubble,my eldest son calls 2/3 times a week to talk over the phone and calls by every Thursday with DGD who plays on the drive for 1/2 hr or so before going to the park with daddy.
My youngest son messages me 2/3 times a week and speaks to me on Saturday nights when he is walking home from work.

Both sons ring every day-usually when I’m in the middle of something Given that none of us are doing much it’s amazing what we find to talk about

My daughters and I have a WhatsApp group and message every day. DD1 rings me 2/3 times a week for a very long chat. DD2 rings every couple of weeks. We Zoom occasionally with all the granddaughters, everyone talking at once, lovely, as we haven't seen each other for over 6 months.

Not often enough! But then I’d have them back at home if I could. They’re only 30 and 33.

I facetime once a week with DD.DS only when he remembers.

my daughter at least twice a dayshe calls for a long blether and msg's me during the day.We havent seen her for exactly a year because she has multiple health problems and we dont want to take any risk of carrying covid to her .

We see our son most days ,he'll visit on the drive with his one year old and his 11 year old on the days she stays with him.I really appreciate seeing them as I had his eldest living with us for half the week from a year old until covid .He also sends me videos of what they get up to at home or on their walks and milestone events like the wee ones fist steps .

Son still lives at home.
Daughter has lived in several places including abroad. She rarely phoned when living away, unless to ask something or to have a rant ?
She is now back living locally and we are in her childcare bubble so see her regularly but she calls more now than she did when living away.

Only have the one DD but usually only hear when she wants something, usually money!! She doesn't live very far from me but as she works and I live alone and therefore self isolate, we are not in a bubble. I don't let it worry me as I have got used to it now!

Two sons, elder one not 'spoken' in about 4yrs, nor did we text until a couple of months ago when he suddenly texted about something his nan had done (which neither of us approve of) and he's texted twice since then.

Younger son used to call every day (much closer relationship) but since the start of covid he's been shut up indoors with his partner and only set for outside maybe 5 or 6 times all year so doesn't really have a lot to say but he's still called at least once a week, if only to moan about how much his partner is getting on his nerves!

This past 10 days he's been back on daily calls but we've been discussing some job interviews he's been doing on zoom and I actually saw him yesterday because he had a f2f interview and rather than messing about with public transport I usually drive him because they're normally in different parts of the country. Now waiting to hear from him as they said they'd let him know today whether the job was his (fingers crossed).