Youngest last year of primary and I can't wait for school run to end !

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Am I the only one ? So many other mums are upset and sad it's ending!

I hear you.

By the time my youngest leaves year 6 in July, I will have been doing the primary school run for 10 years. I’m so done!!

People that enjoy it. How long have you done it for?

I started in 2013. I did a full 7 years. Then had a year off before my middle child started. My youngest hasn't even started school yet 😭 (September)

I've had a solid run for 14 years and only really got the arse with it this year tbf.

I was looking forward to the school run ending, but then when dd was due to start year 7 the bus company changed the bus timetable so that there was now not a bus that got there in time! I ended up doing five years of school runs which were even worse than the primary school one! Five miles of fighting my way through rush hour traffic, versus a 15 minute walk

Yes, that was it for me. I liked the staff, I liked the other parents, I liked my DC's friends and on the days when I didn't have anything else on I was happy enough doing the school run and chatting to people whilst the kids played.
But reality was that most of the time, with no nearby family and both DH and I working, the logistics were hard to manage and it could be very stressful sometimes. Once my DC were at secondary school life seemed much less of a rush all of a sudden. I seemed to be forever only just getting to places on time in the primary years and that kind of panic just evaporated.

Great, I hate anything like that... not a creative bone in my body and wonder where the competitive moms get their time from to do things like this?! I did sometimes get 'mom guilt regarding things like minimal effort for world book day and not volunteering on trips etc but, without having to declare that I obviously love and care for my daughters, I'm just not fully immersed in the whole world of primary school, I'm not a mumsy mum!

We have one more year of primary. Am I the only one who finds it sad? 😢

My youngest DS is in year 7, so I stopped about 6 months ago. Just worked out that was the end of 22 years of school runs! 😱I've always found school playgrounds very uncomfortable, I was extremely relieved!

I'm with you OP (but I'm a granddad).

I'm still taking disabled kid to college, which is next county over, and disabled kid to school.

I really did not expect to be doing 17 years of school runs for one child.

It has been a complete new lease of life for me! DS gets himself up in the morning, does his own bfast and lunch. We have a chat while doing our lunches and he leaves the house before me for his bus leaving me to get ready for work.

He loves the independence, I love seeing him be so independent (and love the calm of the mornings now!)

Hope you love this next chapter ☺️