When I say he “arranged it”, I mean he plans it, we coordinate dates and belly up the credit card. We do travel together because I enjoy the time I get to spend with him and with him being in boarding school, that’s limited. I also want to visit all of the schools he is considering. We’ve always had him “lead the way” through airports and problem-solve any flight delays (with us there as back up) since he was very young as he was a kid that craved independence and we knew he’d want to do all of this on his own sooner rather than later. He chose to go to both a middle school and high school that offered a lot of travel experiences and had the students participate in planning the trips. We have another child that is a year older and has no desire to be independent so we’ve had to adjust our parenting styles to fit each kid.
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