First week blues...

Everyone prepares you for feeling sad when your babies set off on their first day of school, but I have been surprised by the overwhelming feelings I have had twelve years on for my son entering his final year of high school. Knowing in my rational mind that this is a fantastic and positive milestone for him is one thing, telling that to my heart when I am alone in an empty house is another. It just seems like so many things will change bigtime after this year...our children won't set off to school together everyday and share that common experience and I won't send him off in his uniform looking smart...it seems so silly, but the tears are real.

I am confident that this will pass as we move through this first week as I want to be a strong and positive support in this important year and not let down the side when it really counts!!!

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hey there

hey SAL - welcome to our board! i really feel for u - also makes me realize that having that mother connection doesn't stop just when they get older. I've got 2; my eldest boy's in Reception this year but started school last year. reading your post made me realize that all those intense feelings us mums with young kids have don't get diluted when they get older. they stay the same just for different reasons! thoughts your way....

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investments

HI there sal and welcome from me also.......

I think you're great to be so frank about this stage: you've an ongoing investment in your kidlets, no matter their age and stage. The tears sound like a very real grief for the passing of yet another transit on the path to adulthood. ........and a joy too. Good paradox, eh?

I felt a little similar at the end of the last school year as I watched my two leave their primary school together for the last time, knowing that in all likelihood it will be the last time they would ever share a campus, that I would no longer know automatically where they were through the day, that my 13 year old was off to the bigger time at secondary school: which is as it should be, but yet more change!

The definition of life includes that there be change and growth and that is certainly true of happy healthy kidlets, thankfully!

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Thank you...

Hi guys and thanks for your thoughts...these feelings about the start of the school year took me somewhat by surprise and it's nice to bounce them off others...as a family we were so excited about what this year meant...our children attend a K-12 college with our daughter in her final year of primary school and as you all know our son is in year twelve...yet I think the reality of the flipside of all these milestones hit me when I realised the year will fly by and it will be all over too soon!!!

Appreciate you allowing me to vent...each day is brighter!!!!