Boarding school mums - how do you cope?

[thekidstaxi]

Mums with DC at boarding school, how do you cope with your emotions? Do you feel you experience feelings of loss or loneliness?
With the looming realisation my baby will be spending more time at school than home I am starting to worry how I will manage. I am a single mum and we are very close. It was dd's choice to board & had very legitimate reasoning for doing so.
I do work and will be doing further study but I don't think it will fill the inevitable void.
Please tell me how you get through without self medicating with copious amounts of gin!

Oh honestly! The dialogue re living overseas has largely been about either boarding or choosing to stay here & the partner goes. Yes @BubblesBuddy you did indeed (now that I’ve re read it - apologies for not paying attention to every single line!)) write one sentence about schools abroad. Have you read every single line of my posts? Doubt it but to be quite honest i wouldn’t expect you or anyone who has contributed to this thread to have done-its really rather long!

This is all going off point. As I’ve said now (a couple of times) I don’t think any of us has the right to criticise each other’s choices and good luck OP.

I agree SJaneS48. I do try and read your excellent posts! Anyway, we concur.

I’m sure like most people’s they are a mixture of some decent points, assumptions and complete waffle all written on the hoof. But cheers anyway for the validation!

one of my good friends has a child in a boarding school. I dont know how she does it. i think it is just hard. At the start they would call/ facetime each other every night. i suppose it gets easier with time.

I think it gets into a rhythm and I cannot stress enough how short is the time between DC proper visits / home time . It isn't Narnia.

My DS would not have swapped and nor would I . All good and lovely relationships with family here post school. But they were ever thus whilst he was at school. A child who hates their school will not be happy - whatever sort of school it is.