Home for the holidays.....are things different?

agentwood
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:26:17 +0000

I found that while at BS my relationship with my parents improved (especially with my mother). The time away made me appreciate my time with my parents that much more, and as mentioned above, there was no parent there to “nag” me! One year I spent a day visiting my friends at the high school I would have gone to, and came to realize that while I would have been happy there, the school did not compare one iota to my BS.

Because my school was in New England and I was from Colorado, I spent Thanksgiving either with family or friends on the east coast, and I was perfectly happy doing so. As several posters have mentioned, I called my BS “home”, because I truly felt that way. My house counselor was my second mother, and I still keep in touch with her this many years later. As the years progressed, I began spending spring break traveling with one of my extracurriculars, so that meant even LESS time with my parents. But I think my parents, even though they missed me, were okay with that because they saw how happy I was and how much I was learning and growing.

When my parents dropped me off for my first year, I practically pushed them out the door at the end of the day because I was so excited to get on with my new life. Their response? “Well, I guess we’ve made the right choice!”