Feeling so emotional about Year 6 Leaving School

[BrandyandBabycham]

I knew I would be emotional but my goodness I’m a wreck! And DD11 doesn’t finish until Thursday! I had some pictures of her “ graduating” from Pre - School pop up on Facebook & I cried immediately. It only seems 5 minutes since she started Primary School & now we’re talking about the transition to Secondary. My baby’s growing up & I’m not ready. She will love it & is more than ready for all the new experiences. I just want to hold on to her as she is now for a little bit longer. Welling up as I type this .....😢

Well you can’t stop it

I’m embarrassed for you and all the other mums blarting in the last day! Show some resilience.

That was supportive green tulips!

Op I get it

I don’t get it at all. The mums at my DDs school seem to think signing a fucking card and group photos is more important than social distancing. Idiots.

Kids grow up. It’s inevitable. I don’t get crying at fb at all.

I don't know, we had our (SD) graduation ceremony last week and the mum across the aisle from me was bloody foghorn sobbing. It's embarrassing! Can't imagine what her kid felt with her honking away like some demented goose
You've had several years warning you know, it shouldn't be that much of a shock.

Nobody!

Kids all around the world are starving.

I just don’t see why people get upset.

I was happy my kids were growing up and gaining independence and could finally leave junior school.

I just don’t get the crying.

I think the end of primary school has become to big of 'a thing' with graduations, awards, bbqs etc- I think it creates a lot of drama and probably causes children to become overwhelmed and more upset about an inevitable end of a phase of life than is necessary. I was secretly quite relieved lockdown led to nearly all that being cancelled- ours had a socially distanced assembly after school in classes with no parents allowed- kids enjoyed it and no tears- my oldest had about ten different events and the kids were in floods of tears on the last day.
I think it's emotional enough as a parent - Ive been feeling sad about my middle one finishing primary - without all the added fuss

Blimey I didn’t expect some of those reactions! I’m not crying in front of DD or showing myself up in any way - it’s emotional because of time passing & the next stage of life arriving very quickly. I thought that was perfectly natural.

It was emotional for me (last year). Where I live children go to about 15 different secondary schools between them and some families were taking the opportunity of end of primary to move so this was a lot of people I am unlikely to see again (children and adults).
I volunteered as a class helper from nursery class so I had watched these children grow up. I was also in the PTA.
For me it was very much the end of something important.
Quite what that has to do with 'children around the world starving' I don't know. Are people not allowed to be sad about anything because of things happening elsewhere in the world?

I totally get you Brandy. My youngest had her leavers do today. End of an era for me, I’ve been at parent at this primary school for a long time. I didn’t sob but I definitely had a leaky eye when they all sang a song together at the end. Was really lovely and moving. My two have had such a lovely time at their primary and have nothing but fond memories.

Oh my goodness I was crying at my son's leaving assembly last year, it was SO emotional. But we all were, including the children, it was a hugely emotional day. Lots of laughs as well, though. It's a difficult year this year for year 6. Next year we go through it all again 😭