We took ours with us. My son in particular hated us for ‘ripping’ them from the friendship groups etc.

Maybe you can’t win. There is no right or wrong, I’m not sure.

Today he thanks me for the opportunity to have lived in 4 countries on three continents.

Following instincts is often unfathomable and hard. But that does not make it wrong.

When there is no clear right or wrong, what else do we have beside experience, love and instinct to guide our path?

In your case, you only found out by trial (and error - your words), but was it really an error?

Or an unintended consequence. Unintended is not bad, it’s just unintended.

I believe, they may thank you later … because experiencing different “life” experiences, first hand, is much harder to achieve in a highly mollycoddled, regulated world.