RHOBH Recap Season 5 Episode 9 Live & Learn: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Send Their Kids To College

Well, we are going to warn you that you are going to need a box of tissues ready if you are planning on watching this week's episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The wives took a break from party fights and wine throwing this week (yeah, Brandi Glanville we're looking at you) to do some extremely hard parenting. The women including Kyle Richards, Yolanda Foster, and Eileen Davidson, all went their separate ways this week to send their kids off to college. And while there might not have been any entertaining drama this week, it was nice to see the women in a different, more relatable light.

While we are use to seeing these women dripping in diamonds and fancy clothes, this was one of the first full episodes that we could actually relate to them on some sort of level, having gone through the same experience with our parents. Maybe not to the same extremes like getting a West Village apartment paid for us rent free for a full year, but hey, these women are from Beverly Hills, they can't do anything half way, right?

We see a ton of our own mom in Kyle Richards, as we can vividly remember her crying as she gave us one of the most emotional hugs while saying goodbye to us in our dorm room.

Richards is bringing her daughter to the University of Arizona where she will be starting her freshman year of college. We got to say that the one thing we love about Kyle is how deeply and emotionally she cares for her children. While it is killing her to let her daughter spread her wings and go to Arizona for school, she is letting her live her own life, and that is what an amazing parent does.

However, she does let her daughter know that she is welcome to transfer home, should she need to.

Yolanda on the other hand, heads to the East Coast to move her daughter Bella into her brand-new, fully furnished, mommy and daddy, first year paid for, apartment. While our first apartment was also paid for by mom and dad's checkbook, we have to say that it was far less luxurious as a West Village, New York City pad.

Yolanda even goes as far as to get a designer to decorate the apartment for Bella, so that she doesn't have to worry about it and can focus on her studies. While we are content with our Wal-mart and Ikea furniture, it seems that Yolanda wants Bella's apartment to be top notch. While we would love to live in someplace so classy, we think that getting to decorate your own apartment and have it grow as you live there is what's so fun about having your own place.

We have to give props to Yolanda though, as she is definitely a hands on kind of mom. Not only did she pick out the furniture, she also stays during the whole moving process to make sure that everything is up to her standards.

Before Yolanda leaves, Bella gives her mother a card thanking her for being so understanding in her DUI case and letting her know that she will be responsible in New York, so that mommy doesn't have to worry about her.

Staying on the kids theme, Eileen is also saying goodbye to two of her step-sons as they head off to college. As she bids farewell to her oldest, Duke, 21, she reflects on the times that they have had together and how it felt coming into the family as the "new mom." Eileen gets emotional thinking about how far her and Duke have come and how thankful she is for him in her life.

Lisa Vanderpump on the other hand, might not be sending her son Max off to college, but the star does have a touching moment with him. While we usually see Vanderpump playing the mother to some of the other housewives, who, lets be real, probably need it, it is refreshing to see her as a parent to her actual kin, as this is a side we rarely get to see.

Lisa and Ken talk to Max about his life path and goal and lecture him on his car. I mean come on Max get that thing insured, will you?

While it may not have to do with the central theme of parenting; Brandi Glanville does have a viewing party to watch her ex- Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes' new reality series. However, in her defense she says she is watching strictly to see what the pair says about her kids. Come on Brandi, we know you wanted to watch it just a little bit.

It seems that she doesn't regret watching it as it feels like the whole show is based around her persona. Eddie and LeAnn end up saying her names so many times that Brandi feels that she needs to get a check for being a character on the show.

While this episode took a more emotional turn, it seems that Bravo is upping the drama for next week, as fans will finally get to see that physical altercation between Kyle and Brandi.