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[quote=Anonymous]I am not (yet) parenting a boarding school student, but I hope to one day. I attended a tier 1 boarding school and it was an amazing experience. I hope I am able to send my own children eventually. I do think my parents started parenting a lot less once I was there- I think they would say it was a lot like parenting a college student. But I was a very independent kid and my parents were pretty hands-off. We talked on the phone often, but not every day, saw each other a few times a month (they didn't live too far away), and they were supportive, but they didn't get involved in what I was studying very much. I knew other students whose parents were much more engaged- some who lived in fear of a bad test score that might be disappointing. I was then and still am very close with my parents, and I actually think boarding school helped. I think I'd have gotten more out of it if my parents had been more engaged with my studies, but am glad they weren't breathing down my neck. I'd add that students like me who had initiated the process were happiest and the ones whose parents forced them had a harder time (though my sibling was forced to go to a less academically intense boarding school and truly thrived). Things may have changed, but I would generally say you shouldn't expect to talk to your kid every day or to know everything that is going on, but high schoolers pull away anyhow, don't they?[/quote]

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