Teen Parenting

Swim coach wants our daughter at a three-week training camp in Bengaluru in May

citrus_veranda_2579

She's been with this club for a few years and the coach has picked six of them for a residential camp. Hostel, two sessions a day, one assistant coach travelling with them. She's thrilled. My partner has already said yes. I'm the one hesitating and I can't fully explain why. She's sensible, she's been on school trips. But it's three weeks, it's the furthest she'll have been on her own, and grade 10 starts right after. Did your teens do something like this at around this age? What did you want to know before you agreed?

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  • sunny_camera_4304

    Our elder one did a two-week music camp last year. First three days of calls were tears, then she barely called at all. Ask what the phone rules are and how often they can call home, that's what settled it for us 😊

  • cinnamon_diary_4195

    Not the same age at our end, but I'd want to meet the assistant coach before I worried about the hostel. One adult for six teenagers, in a city that isn't theirs, is the part I would ask about.

    • citrus_veranda_2579

      Fair point. The one adult was what bothered me, I think, without my noticing. Asking the coach today.

  • amber_marigold_6068

    my daughter isn't a swimmer, but last year i said no to a two-week trip for her and then spent a month wondering why. it helped to ask myself whether the worry was about her or about three weeks without her. i didn't love the answer

    • citrus_veranda_2579

      Mostly the second, if I'm honest. My partner said the same thing in fewer words.

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