Race to Nowhere

ssacdfamily
Mon, 02 May 2011 18:15:34 +0000

4 hours a day in the car? …words fail me.

among the many good things about boarding school for my daughter has been removing the 45 minutes it took to get to any activity (and of course the 45 minutes to get home again), as well as the 45 minutes each way to school.

D being D, she has filled up the time with a) poetry society b) writing for the newspaper c) drawing on her own d) arts and crafts projects e) new sport f) new private music lessons…I may be missing something but I don’t think her EC list is suffering from not having me there to push her.

plus more time to talk to friends, more time to sleep, and more time to really focus on homework.

It kind of hurts to say it, because I killed myself to build activities for her - trying my best to replicate boarding school without having to send her away - but you can’t get blood from a stone when it comes to time.