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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OP, I had the exact same situation and hired someone to stay with my 16-17 year old while we were gone for a week. All those that have come after you are absurd IMO. My DS left for school at 7 am and arrived home between 6-630 pm; he drove himself but the dog was at home all day. DS also needed someone to get have dinner waiting when he got home because he was starving when he walked in the door. We were out of the country and have no family nearby, so I was not at all comfortable just leaving him alone. I also didn't want him to have to deal with peer pressure on the weekend when all his friends would have definitely pushed for a party at our house.

You can post adds at AU or other nearby colleges - call and ask their student affairs offices. Or ask a neighbor with a college kid at home.

Regardless of the advisability of having someone stay with a HS senior, the bolded is just ridiculous.

Do better, PP.[/quote]

Do you seriously think I need advice from you, internet stranger? My kid was a junior in high school with four hours of homework almost every night and he was getting six hours of sleep a night.  So yes, I wanted someone to get him dinner to make his school days a little easier and because I didn't want him eating Chipotle or similar for a week straight. It's the same thing I would have done if I was home. He's now at one of the colleges people on this site love to strive for, calls home once a week and does his own laundry weekly, so I think I did fine.

Only on DCUM would a parent get bashed for acting like a parent.  Be better, OP.[/quote]

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