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Pinkorchid

Pinkorchid

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Today my granddaughter Amber and her friend Hannah start an amazing journey off travelling for a year and they will visit about 16 countries starting in India finishing in Australia where they will be for next Christmas. They started to plan it about a year ago and it seemed so far off but for us and their parents it has come around all to soon. Of course we will worry about her and will miss her so much but they are both 23 years old and sensible girls and we know they will have a wonderful time.This time tomorrow they will be on the first step of their journey in India
 
I can fully sympathise with you. My 19 years old grandson went travelling throughout Thailand 2 years ago - on his own. Then last year he did the same thing round Indonesia. So I know how you are feeling. There is nothing to be done about it, and Amber and Hannah will have the time of their lives, with memories that will stay with them forever. They will come home more confident, more rounded girls. There are emails, Skype and texts to help you keep in touch - use them. :)
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I can fully sympathise with you. My 19 years old grandson went travelling throughout Thailand 2 years ago - on his own. Then last year he did the same thing round Indonesia. So I know how you are feeling. There is nothing to be done about it, and Amber and Hannah will have the time of their lives, with memories that will stay with them forever. They will come home more confident, more rounded girls. There are emails, Skype and texts to help you keep in touch - use them. :)
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Yes at least that's a comfort the technology these days to keep in touch wherever they are. Had we had the same opportunities when we were young I am sure we would have done it.
 
Don't worry - my daughter went off on her own at 18, in a gap year between College and Uni, to Europe, Oz and the Far East. She's always been quite self sufficient but it was the making of her in so many ways. My only concern is that I suspect she wants to go off travelling again, after she graduates this summer, and that she may end up on the other side of the World, shacked up with a hunky Aussie Lifeguard (I think this is probably her secret ambition :D).

Scary to us, but who can deny them the opportunity when they are young and inquisitive?
 
I'm not a mother, but that independent streak is surely a sign of successful parenting?

My Father once told me his ambitions for my brother and I were that we would be independent people, in deed and thought. Once we had done that we were more likely to make good relationships and something of ourselves.

I don't think he and my Mum did such a bad job.
 
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