Semi-related: I know how you feel regarding having your daughter make friends in the neighborhood. My daughter attends a little Presbyterian school in downtown San diego, close to my work, but about 16 miles from our home. She has attended this school since she was about 3-1/2. Some of the girls there, she has known since that age, and they are all in the 8-9 age group now. So being that we get home around 530 every weekend for the past 5 years, she hasn't really gotten to know any of the kids in the 'hood.
On the one hand, the neighborhood school is maybe 1/4 mile from our house: we have to pass by it to leave the tract, I know the principal, good reputation. On the other hand, she has all her little friends at the school she now attends. But, at some point, she'll have to switch to the local district for high school. So I'll have to decide--do I pull her out when she starts junior high? Wait til HS? Sooner?
It is great to hear someone else has this dilemma, too... well, I’m sorry you have it, too, I guess.
It’s a tough situation... and it is exacerbated when both parents don’t have similar agendas.
Daughter got back from visiting mom yesterday, and expressed all sorts of objections, but actually I have to say they weren’t really powerful objections.
I am blessed that she accepts my authority easily.
Hmmm... perhaps I should add “now” to the end of that sentence... If I do, it makes it seem that my best bet is to make the change now, and avoid possibilities of a huge scene in a couple years...