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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry, but I don't need my 14 year old to be independent, and I don't care if they go to HPY when they are older, that is not the goal for having kids.  I want my kids at home with me.  My DD is a Freshman this year and it was like my 18 years were up and he is gone, the time flew by.  I am sure it works for some people, but I do not see the purpose of shipping my kids off and seeing them at holiday's.  That is not why I became a parent.  P.S. I never did a load of laundry until I went to college...not hard, I figured it all out![/quote]

Your post is 100% about your emotional needs and wants as a parent. I would encourage you to reflect on that, because setting boarding school aside that is a pretty sh$tty way to raise kids.

Maybe your kids aren’t right for BS. Cool. Most aren’t. For some kids (me included) it was life-changing. But either way I think it’s seriously screwed up to preemptively deprive your kid of something that may be right for them because of what you want and why you became a parent.

My own kids aren’t remotely the right fit for BS so I’m not planning to send them either. And I’m totally fine with that. But if that were the right fit for them, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Just like if they were chess prodigies or highly skilled athletes or had SNs that would really benefit from a particular school or other opportunity, we’d pursue that. The vast majority of kids I went to BS with were there because they really, really wanted to be. [/quote]

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