Fuck - it's only 2 weeks 'til term!

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And DS starts in reception.

Where on earth has my baby gone? I'm actually relatively calm about it all but had a horrid dream last night that he got out of school and no-one knew and he caught the bus to our next town - clever kid eh?

He starts in school on the Friday for the afternoon session then is in fulltime from Monday. He leaves his private nursery on the Thursday. He's been there for 3.5 years.

Share some of your tips, stories and other starting school remedies with me!

I don’t have any particularly good tips but he/you will be fine.

My “baby” starts High School this time! Waaah! How can that be? She’s only 3! In my head obv.

Good luck to your Ds.

BusySittingDown Thank you. He only turned 4 9 days ago I think I'm likely worrying more than it will actually affect him.

He loves his nursery and going to my parents (the current childcare set up) and I fear he'll be upset this doesn't happen.

Plus... leaving him in a room of strangers makes me feel sad.

I know the feeling. DD starts Y2 in 2 weeks and she's just a newborn!!

When she started Foundation she knew no one (new area) - she has a gaggle of friends now and loves school. He will be fine, really. If he's not then you'll fix it.

Aw, bless him only just turning 4.

They’re a lot more robust than we give them credit for though. He’ll make so many more new friends and ime the reception teachers are wonderful at settling them in too.

My DD1 is a summer baby and knowing that she was in the same class as children who were born before I was even pregnant with her was mind blowing!
She was fine though and she loved school.

DD2 is really shy and quiet and I was dreading her starting school as she never settled at nursery but again she was fine and thrived. She’s moving into the juniors when they go back and she loves it (I never thought she would).

Exciting times ahead!

My 'baby' starts sixth form college next month. He has always been very ready for the next stage of whatever he was doing.

My advice is enjoy it - don't let him see that you are sad to see a phase of his life move on, be excited for the new (god I got annoyed with the parents crying at the end of year six - which made their DC cry - but I'm obviously a heartless bitch).

On a more practical note, school will drop dressing up days on you with very little notice, get yourself some craft supplies so that any dressing up day can be solved with a slightly wonky, but made with love mask! (his Year R Gruffalo mask is still the one I am most pround of!) And you can make pretty much any dressing up costume/tunic with crepe paper and an stapler, seriously you will get very good at short notice solutions.

And though he is growing up, he will always be your baby - I discovered last week that stroppy, gorgeous, eats-everything-in-sight DS, who aslo has spent his Summer doing a temporary job I never imagined he'd stick at - still sleeps with 'Doggy' bought for him by my DF when he was a year old. I haven't let on that I know.

You have so much cuteness to come - crafts that he will be very pround of, though you won't know what they are. Christmas play. Class assembly. Sports day (maybe). Parents Evening (sometimes!).

I'm a little scared and excited combined into one for his new stage. He is ready, despite being the youngest in the class he's in at nursery.