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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I understand that the breaks are longer, but that's not the same thing as seeing your kids on a day-by-day basis. Spending time with your child at six-week intervals during a period of intense emotional and cognitive development seems less than optimal to me. You would be missing out on those spontaneous heart-to-heart talks that are a critical part of parenting during the teen years.[/quote]

I don't have teens, and I did not attend boarding school (I am the PP whose neighbor went to Choate).  But I know her parents very well, and I know they are very invested in their daughter and were very hands on parents growing up.  She talks on the phone with them a lot, and they have a lot of quality time together when she is on breaks. The issue with conversations about boarding school I see is that people immediately get very judgmental about what they think the best way to parent kids are.  To me, it smacks of the same sort of attitudes people have about working parents putting their kids in daycare when they are younger.  I think there are many ways of parenting effectively, and while there are advantages to having spontaneous day to day interaction, there are also advantages to having extended amounts of time where the kids don't have school obligations to spend together as well.[/quote]

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