leaving children for 6 months

Spendless

pinkclouds wrote: »

My tuppence worth is that, if this is genuinely a desirable thing to do (and a few posters have indicated it would bring real career benefits) and husband and kids are comfortable with the notion, then the best solution is to send the kids to boarding school for a year.

Incredibly expensive thing to do though. :cool: These are the fees for boarders my son's friend's parents were considering sending their kids to (they would have got a 90% reduction due to Dad's job)


http://www.queenethelburgas.edu/fees

For the ages listed around £8.5k per term, so over £50k for 2 kids over the course of a year. I know Kimberley said she believes this would accelarate her career, but it would have to accelerate it a lot if she'd accumulate a £50k debt in doing it.

Rebecca01

and disturb the children from their own schools for a year. Hmmm that doesnt sound good to me!

squibbs25

Ive just asked my 9 year old dd what she thought about a mum going away for 6 months on a cruise ship - her face lit up - then i said that the mum wont see her children for 6 months as she will be too busy and my daughters face dropped and said No Way!!!

I think a lot depends on the relationship between the children and the parents. In our house i am primary carer and dad works full time so my chidren would not accept the thought of me not being here for that length of time, not being able to kiss them goodnight etc where as my sister has a career and her children would be more accepting of her going away but not so accepting for not seeing her for 6 months.

I think it would be seen differently if there was the opportunity for the family to meet up every month or so (long weekend) while OP is away.

Hope it works out OP, whatever you decide.

ognum

Sensibly in my opinion the OP has not posted on this thread for 3 days and left you lot to continue to pontificate!

Such a lot of hot air!