I actually talked with my parents about this, because when I was 16, they let me live in Boston for a summer at a supervised but curfew-free program at Tufts, spend 10 days in London (same kind of thing) at 17, live in Manhattan with a roommate in a doormaned building when I was 18 and spend 5 weeks in London when I was 19.
I can't imagine letting Harry start this sort of thing in *nine years*. He's my ickle woobie baby!
But I know I probably need to give him the independence and stability to be able to - I don't want to hold him back but I want him to be mature enough to do all these things.
Time away from parents and with different people and their expectations is probably a bigger deal than I imagined with I was 15 or 19. I like your sister's idea about laundry - it might be a good collaborative experience, actually, for the girls to do it together?
I'm going to watch what you do, and learn from you. Zat okay?
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Date: 2007-01-09 03:53 pm (UTC)I can't imagine letting Harry start this sort of thing in *nine years*. He's my ickle woobie baby!
But I know I probably need to give him the independence and stability to be able to - I don't want to hold him back but I want him to be mature enough to do all these things.
Time away from parents and with different people and their expectations is probably a bigger deal than I imagined with I was 15 or 19. I like your sister's idea about laundry - it might be a good collaborative experience, actually, for the girls to do it together?
I'm going to watch what you do, and learn from you. Zat okay?