<p>@Towerchute: Despite currently living equidistant to Phila and NYC (after years of living in both cities), we have only maintained a sub to the New Yorker over the years. NY Mag is fun enough, though…if you like scandal, composites, and “best of” lists!</p>
<p>I read the article and was a little horrified for some of the kids. I know my Mother would have happily moved in with me as an adult after I got married, and if I gave her an inch would happily come and take over my life- even though I’m old enough to be helping my oldest child with high school admissions- so I am a little touchy about parents who seem to want to turn the umbilical cord into a noose. Part of me just does not understand the urge, though! </p>
<p>I mean, a big part of what I want for the kiddo to get out of the BS experience is to learn to stand on her own, with training wheels- a little hard to do if I don’t let go of the back of the bicycle seat, you know?</p>
<p>Yeah, I really wondered why these parents didn’t just stick w day schools…</p>
<p>Cut to: years later, kid joins SEAL unit in Iraq, mom finds cute pied a terre in Kirkuk?</p>
<p>That’s nothing. Anyone up for moving house in order to share Junior’s college years? <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/23/us/ap-us-parenting-college-moves.html?_r=0[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/23/us/ap-us-parenting-college-moves.html?_r=0</a></p>
<p>At this rate, I wonder how many people in their twenties will be permitted not to live with their parents?</p>
Soxmom. I am also a Hkiss parent and have seriously considered a place near Lakeville. One weekend’s hotel bill was $750 and the place reminded all of us of the shining. We are staying nearly an hour away for pArents weekend this year because we didn’t book soon enough. The article failed to mention that theres
Somehow managed to post a draft…
Anyway my point was that there is a scarcity of hotel rooms in some of these areas to the extent that if you might want to go to one or two hockey games per month you may be financially ahead with a small house or condo nearby that you could also rent out to other families that are in a similar position.
I agree that boarding school fosters independence and I wouldn’t want to quash that but sometimes the kid wants you to show up for the things they are passionate about. Almost all of the parents at my DS school show up to a majority of the varsity hockey games. DS was feeling left out because we rarely attended. When he vocalized that, we made a bigger effort despite the 6 -7 hour drive. Not a helicopter, but certainly responsive.
@1th111 Was it the Wake Robin Inn or the Interlaken that reminded you of the Shining?
Or the White Hart Inn?
Mom wants me to go to Cate so she has a reason to visit CA all the time. I vote we just move. 8->
Cate is a fabulous school, stargirl3- I hope you get in. My daughter loves it. (and I love visiting) B-)
@lth111 I felt ironic that The Stanley Hotel (that inspired the Shining) sits right off major highway near shopping center and restaurants in Estes Park far from being remote in any sense.
@payn4ward I hate that hotel (Stanley)!
@LifeLongNYer Why? expensive? Have you stayed there and seen ghosts?
It’s a cute place to spend a couple hours and have lunch, combining visits to Estes Park or RMNP.
I have never stayed there, I don’t think I would, given that there seems to be ghosts… I haven’t done the ghost tour at night either but I might do it one day and spend the night at another place. lol
@payn4ward I have to be in Estes Park once a year, I stayed there twice and I hated it so much that now I just stay in Denver and drive back and forth to Estes Park!
Interlaken. But wake robin also creeped out dd…late arrival not a soul to be found…keys waiting on front desk
We really like white hart but rarely can get a reservation
Nonetheless we keep forking over the $ at Interlaken… Or just driving 8 hours round trip in a day if at all doable.
Now xed fingers for younger son for m10…
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I’m a Duke alumni interviewer and I often get assigned students from a well known BS near me.
On at least two occasions I’ve interviewed an international student whose parents bought a home nearby. Both families were from China, and the mom stays in the US with the kid and the dad stays back. Was definitely strange to me.
Oh, thats all very easy to judge when you ‘happen’ to be within driving distance of your child’s school and you have the option to choose a local school over one out of state. :))
True. I remember meeting a mom at one school who was from China. She and her husband had moved to the US when their only child started school here. I thought it was the right thing to do, if possible (obviously it isn’t for many).
I guess if I were so wealthy that I didn’t have to work, or if my job could be done remotely, I might choose to move to a town closer to my kids’ BS…but the OVERWHELMING factor in such a decision is “Would I choose to live in this town if my kid didn’t go to school nearby?”