Sobbed at DS year 6 leavers

[Honestlyhonay]

We live overseas so it is the last day of the school year tomorrow. Just had my DS's year 6 leaver's assembly and I am an emotional wreck. I was just about holding it together until they did the haka at the end. I didn't dare look around so now I feel like I was the only one.

Any words of comfort?! I NEVER used to be a crier but having DCs has totally changed me 😅

Oh I always sob at my kids leaving assemblies! I’ve been an absolute mess when I’ve left each and every one of them.

I think almost all of us do that, I certainly cried at my daughter's end of primary school celebration. But I also cried at the end of year celebration I went to in her first year of school, I didn't know the children who were leaving the school that year but the emotion of the event just got to me and I sobbed. Think I actually cried more that time than when it was my daughter!

I did that too. Totally normal reaction.

It is so overwhelning isn't it

They put tissue packs on the seats for ours!

Leaving year 6 is as much a milestone for parents as it is for the child!

Where does the time go?
They're growing so fast.
My sons leavers show will he I'm July and I know I'll be the same. I feel I only just dropped him off to nursery as an excited 3 year old.

Always cried at my children’s assemblies and other similar events.
I never cry in any other circumstances, even funerals.
Then got a job as a Director of Education in a large Local Authority. It involved invites to random schools assemblies. Didn’t know any of the children and there were over 100 schools. Cried at every single one🥲

I cried the day my DS's teacher told me he'd read a whole book for the first time.

That was 5 years ago and I still tear up every time I think about it. Thankfully, she started crying too 🤣

He's in Y5. I'm dreading Y6 and the leaver's assembly. I am going to be an absolute wreck!

I had many tears in the run up to the assembly as I kept hearing the songs the kids were singing in it and set me off! On the actual assembly I was absolutely fine which shocked me as I was prepared with tissues to cry. However I cried on his last day at school pick up. He's year 10 now and has flown by

SIL sent me the video of DNeice/nephew's leaving celebration and even I welled up when the rest of the school did the Haka to the leavers (& I'm not a kiwi!)

Cried each time mine have changed schools too - I have eye fountains basically

These comments are making me feel so much better ha ha

Solidarity.

im in the UK again now, but moved to NZ when I was 8, lived there until I was 19 (then back & forth) several stints of several years. Both equally home, your post made well up at the thought of them doing the haka, my god daughter sent me a video of the boys doing the haka at summer camp 😢😢

I feel so far away.

I cried at Y6 leavers and the last day and several times at the thought of her leaving ..
she's at Uni now... you've got years to catch up with tears!! 😭😭😭

Having babies fucks with your tear ducts.

Although, for me, it was getting married. Before that, I was normal. After that, nope, I have no filter. Emotional upheaval, I suppose, except I have yet to grow out of it.

I'm post menopausal and can no longer cry at anything, so maybe you really do grow out of it!

Well, if they will insist on singing 'when I grow up' from Matilda...as well as the photos on the screen showing the reception photos side by side with the final year photo! 😥

I was ok at my sons year 6 leavers but I went to the end of year high school celebration for my year 8 son. The school lost a year 12 boy this year in an RTA and the head spoke so movingly about how his classmates had decorated his chair with “forever 17” and how lucky the rest of us were to be able to attend that day, I don’t think there was a dry eye in the whole place.

Oh god we had that too!

@Tenpintonpin I’m very post meno, too, not a lot of fucks given here but give me a tear jerking opening of an envelope and I am there.

When I was a year 6 teacher, I used to tell my students that our objective for the Leavers' Assembly was to make the parents cry. You never had a chance of getting out of there dry- eyed!