How often do you visit your boarder?

[Layinwait]

Just that really! Dropped my daughter off at boarding school yesterday. It’s only 40 mins away. She is confident, gung-ho and was very excited to start, waving me off with “I love you mum” and hardly a backward glance as they headed off for a welcome supper and then ice-breaking games (my worst nightmare, her dream evening!).

I know she will be perfectly happy to come back for the exeat weekend and that’s that but she knows that her old mum is desperate to see her before then so she’s said that I could come and visit and we go out for lunch / walk.

I love the idea of popping over to whisk her out for lunch on a weekend. If you do this, how often?

Also - do you attend matches? I don’t really enjoy spectating matches and so would rather not attend them all, but having said that - if the norm is to attend as many as possible, then I’ll endeavour to make as many as i can! Or at least off load to other family members!

Many thanks

You’ve just proved my point @PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog 👏

You asked for tips about seeing your child - were told that actually turning up and watching sports was a very important thing to do. But you're not going to do it because it's dull and cold....

I get it, nice lunches are your thing. But your kid needs sports support more. Not sure why you'd post if you were going to ignore the advice 🤷‍♀️

@titchy

the op said she wasn’t going to bake cakes for the entire team but she was happy to spectate or occasionally off load

Why see shadows where there aren’t any

I'd go to as many matches as you can and take her out for a few hours every other Sunday. At exert you can ask her if she'd like to up the frequency of Sunday visits.

She sounds like she is going to have a blast. Exciting!