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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I got a good job there and they would obviously go to an international school so I don't quite see the problem. She will make new friends and after she graduates she can do whatever she wants and live wherever she wants. My husband and I are so done with her attitude because she's insulting us and yelling at us and sleeping over at friends houses on school nights without even asking us. We just don't engage with her anymore.

This won't traumatize her right? I mean people move all the time and adjust.
Just don't know how we will get her on a plane...[/quote]

we moved our 9th grader and she missed the beginning of high school in her new school so that sucked.  it took about a year but our daughter has adjusted, she isn't quite thriving though and that has been hard for us to witness as parents, it has opened her up to new ideas and she has made a good friend and had some good experiences that are very living in europe dependent.   I think you need to acknowledge that what you are doing is hard and hurtful and open up some communication with your daughter. we also planned a trip that the kids had really really wanted asap after we moved. also took the kids on a trip to do a shadow day and "sell" where we were going to live.  you cant be 'done' with her attitude= you are forcing a whole person to move continents- as an adult you know this is good for you but you have to empathize and communicate the empathy with your daughter who is feeling like her life is so so out of her control. I mean you could also share stories of kids' lives being screwed over by ICE to remind her how lucky she is. [/quote]

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