"What I did goes against conventional wisdom. We all know that a teenager needs stability and that high school is an important time in their development. It's a time when self-concept, friends, and consistency are all important. It can be destabilizing to move in the middle of that four-year period. Yet, that is exactly what we did. In September 2024, I moved my then-16-year-old-daughter from her private school in Hawaii to a public school in Seattle."
"We needed to move. It had been seven years since my husband died from colorectal cancer, lying there in our bed overlooking the Pacific Ocean. My daughter and I needed to let go of that space and move forward. We initially thought we were just going to find a different apartment in Honolulu where we lived. My daughter was attending a private school with a sprawling green campus. She was on the swim team. She acted in school plays."
"Then I thought about college. I had started to wonder how my daughter was going to go from her peaceful bubble to a mainland university in just two years. She had already shared with me that she didn't want to continue her education in Hawaii. She didn't love the weather, and she didn't feel like she fit in. She had only lived in Alaska and Hawaii though, and I was concerned she didn't really understand how much faster life can be on the mainland."
A mother and her 16-year-old daughter relocated from Hawaii to Seattle in September 2024 to start anew seven years after the father's death from colorectal cancer. The daughter left a private school with a sprawling green campus, swim team, and theater activities. The mother worried about moving during high school but feared staying would leave the daughter unprepared for mainland university life. The daughter disliked Hawaii's weather and felt she did not fit in. The family made the decision while visiting Seattle in July 2024 and completed the move to enroll the daughter in a Seattle public school.
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