Leaving Home At Eight | Boarding School Children

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The documentary follows four eight-year-old girls as they adjust to a new life away from their parents and their homes.
The parents have decided their children will be better off boarding in a private school, in this instance Highfield, one of the best in the UK. All coming from military families that are constantly on the move, every one of these girls parents decided that being in a stable environment as well as getting a top class education was the best way for them to grow up. But what kind of emotional strain does this put on both the homesick kids and their yearning parents.
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@aaliyahify 28 күн бұрын

For me, boarding school feels like a place parents send their kids so they dont have to deal with them.

@Itsthedramailoveit 21 күн бұрын

April desperately hugging someone else’s mum made me choke up. Then for that mother to turn her back 😢 I’d love an update on how their lives are now and how this experience shaped their future.

@luvghd 28 күн бұрын

The father who wanted his kids to go to boarding school because he went at 13 should have at least waited until his girls were 13 instead of sending them at age 8.

@Fazerella 14 күн бұрын

The mum who said she didn't mind boarding so much because she doesn't have to shout at her daughter to get ready or do her homework. So basically...you're happy not to parent anymore...

@debbiedavis9523 21 күн бұрын

When the nurse tells April its really difficult for her parents to hear her distress....so now its the 8 year old child's responsibility to protect her parents emotions on top of everything she is going through !!8 years old is far too young to be separated from the family in this way and will cause a huge amount of trauma for the child.The parents should have taken into consideration the fact that they are an army family who would be moving around alot before having children

@Sevenarrowsacademy 28 күн бұрын

Sorry but it seems like those fathers just dont want to deal with their children. Those mothers are devastated.

@SJanaS 21 күн бұрын

what's the point of having kids if you miss out on their entire childhood and have them raised by strangers.

@rachaelbrown3699 28 күн бұрын

Stability is staying with loving parents no matter where they need to move

@regoschuh9710 21 күн бұрын

To tell the child (who is already not feeling well) that their parents will feel too sad if she talks to them, makes her feel like it would be her fault that her parents feel sad. This is wrong…

@Kaiandherfloof 21 күн бұрын

Sending your 8 year old to boarding school is crazy it’s just unnecessary emotional stress

@hebybabygrobe 21 күн бұрын

I don’t think children are ever better off , being without their parents, I think moving as a family , is an adventure

@KathrynHolden-op9xc 21 күн бұрын

This broke my heart. The feeling of abandonment has never left me and I’m in my 50’s. I vowed never to send mine and I never did. I love my kids far too much to make them feel like that 😢

@cutepetcat7553 21 күн бұрын

Poor kids. Kids need parents, home and hugs ❤

@abbyhillman769 21 күн бұрын

Sandra--YOU are her stability. She doesn't need a consistent building,, she needs YOU.

@juliannebigler8669 21 күн бұрын

I don't know how this is legal. I wonder how many studies have been done on the longterm impacts on children who experience separation in boarding school. I don't think boarding schools for children under the age of 13 should even exist. This is a heartbreaking first world cruelty.

@hebybabygrobe 21 күн бұрын

It’s not for April, she misses hugs! She is self soothing by sucking her thumb ! She even wants hugs from others sooo much

@gs-rc3jz 28 күн бұрын

Italian here! 'Stop it or I send you to boarding school' was actually the ultimate threat my father said when me and my older sister weren't behaving well during our childhood.. I considered it so scary