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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think this is about schooling per se. I think this is about what you envision your parenting experience and family structure to be like, and what type of childhood you envision for your children. (The teen years are a little different; by the time the kids are teenagers, you can discuss what their vision of high school is like, and what would be best for their future.)

If your vision for parenting includes a lot of close family time throughout childhood, though, it doesn't make very much sense to send your children away to boarding school young. You may find that this clashes directly with your husband's vision for the future of your marriage, though. If he's thinking that once the kids are 8, you will effectively be empty nesters, but you're looking forward to high-investment parenting through until at least the end of middle school (and perhaps all the way through high school), that's a big disagreement that you need to resolve -- with the help of a couples therapist if necessary.[/quote]

Her husband should not have fathered children if he wants to send them to another conti ent to be raised by strangers at age 8.[/quote]

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