Was I wrong?

[honeychile]

It sounds to me that this woman is dependent on her daughter for translation purposes of a sort.

FWIW, I was 16 when I graduated from high school, and had more than a handful of scholarships offered - many of them out of state. My parents felt that I was not mature enough to live out of state on my own, and frankly, they were right. They insisted that I live at home my freshman year, with the idea that I would transfer to another school afterwards.

While I balked at the idea initially, I came to realize that they knew me better than I did at the time, and that it was a more than fair idea. It still seems like a worthwhile compromise to me, all these years later!