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Originally Posted by Pyramid*

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Now on the subject of boarding school..... I myself spent the last few years of my teenage years at boarding school in Hastings. It hardly traumatised me, indeed it did nothing but aid me in learning how to be independant and learn how to stand on my own two feet, without being mollycoddled along the way. So if some have this rather strange idea of boarding school being some sort of 'draconian punishment', I can assure you, I personally spent some of my best school days down in Catsfield Place.

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Personally although I really don't want to get into parental choices and be over critical, there are always personal circumstances where it's maybe the better choice to send your child away to board at school but I certainly don't think it's mollycoddling to want to have your young children at home with you and give them all the emotional love and support they need when they are children, it might force a child to become an adult much earlier than is necessary but I don't think that's a particularly good thing