Has your high schooler come to you asking to take a year abroad? Or your undergrad, has she said she wanted to take time away from the quad and go to Qatar? And did you hold your breath? I get it. When I went to my parents at 21 and said I was taking a semester off of school to go to Kenya, and that I wouldn't get any college credit for it, I think it took all the energy they could muster not to chain me to the nearest post. Asking...