Struggling with my children growing up!

[someoneiou]

I know this sounds so pathetic but the last week or so I've been getting teary-eyed thinking about my DC growing up.

They are 3 and 2 and I am absolutely LOVING their ages at the moment. I just want them to stay this age forever.

But then DC1 will start school next September and even thinking about it makes my heart hurt.

I'm a SAHM. Not sure if that makes a difference but just to add context.

Anyone else felt similar? How did you cope?

Lovely to see such a supportive thread here tonight 🥰

My DD is 18 now and the time has flown. I remember feeling like you do now but honestly, just enjoy every age and don’t be sad as they get older. Be excited for what else is to come - things they become old enough to share with you and watching them grow. So much more fun, exciting, cute, amazing times to come OP

@Wide

Maybe you want another baby? I said the same this evening my two are getting so old to me, nearly 7 and 10 and I don't know where the years have gone and I jokingly said I may have to have another to cling onto the baby years. I know that when I am older and the kids have grown up these will be the years I am living through now which will be a blur and I will miss, it's just so hard to absorb it at the time until it's too late and a nostalgic memory 😭

Is definitely love another but it will put a lot of pressure on us financially. Heart say yes but head says no way.

Will look forward to the positives and more fun to come.

I just feel like that "2 under 2" phase passed by in such a blur and now I'm actually really enjoying my DC and want time to freeze forever. Glad I'm not the only one who feels like this/has felt like this though And thank you for no one telling me I'm a wet lettuce and to get a grip!

My eldest is 18. The others are 13 and 11.

They are such amazing interesting fantastic people
Every stage is hard in its own way b

I get how you feel tho. My ‘baby’ starts secondary in September- yes I will cry. But he’s ready to go and start his next chapter

I think, as others have said, that there are good and bad bits to every stage of parenting, so, while your DC are not babies/ toddlers anymore and it feels sad to have moved on from that stage, there is still lots of fun to come as they grow up.
My DC are 6 and 9, and not as cute as they were when they were 3 and 6, and I am slightly shocked that DC1 is nearly 10 and this year we will have to choose a high school for her (where has my baby gone?), but they are growing up to be great kids. They play together and don't need me so constantly, DC2 sleeps now which she didn't regularly do for 4 years. There are things to miss from each stage and things to be glad to move on from, enjoy the future.