To listen to this and sob because DS2 is going to high school

[RunAwayWife]

Someone please come slap me

Aww- Our year 6s sang a version of this last year at the end of their leaver's concert.

Not a dry eye in the house.

Awww, you dozy wotsit! Here, have a very unMNly ((hug)) and a solid thump on the shoulder - bless you!

DD (PFB) is off to high school and I have been contemplating listening to this just to torture myself a bit more. Thanks for the link!!!!!

So, 4 minutes of blubbing completed. Feel much better now (not)

Made it to 41 seconds then had to turn it off before I howled. waaaaaaahhhh.

Oh please no no no. Not the song. I actually didn't know it until some evil MNer posted a link to it on a thread on a similar theme. I clicked on the link, listened and have never heard anything so devastating!
My DCs are 3 and 4 months and I still can not bear the sentiment of this song! It is good though for giving me a kick up the arse and making me spend proper time with the DCs- they don't know what's hit them after I've listened to it. Craft, cooking, duck feeding, story-telling they are exhausted by the end

At least I'm not the only one, I howled at that song the last time I saw mamma mia the movie. My DD is only 6 months old, DH was completely baffled.

When my DD1 left her primary school one of the other mums put together a montage of photos of her and her friends from Reception to Year 6 with a soundtrack of Green Day's "When September Ends". The line "Seven years has gone so fast" gets me every time. DD found me blubbing, draped across the ironing board a couple of weeks ago when they played on Radio 2. She left primary school 6 years ago.

My dds call this 'the song that makes mummy cry' and delight on playing it over and over again while demanding tears!

glad I am not alone.... I am dreading the levers assembly

This was on the radio as I pulled into work the other day and I blubbed, then had to compose myself before going in I actually sat in the car till it finished ............... DDs are 3 & 6 so not exactly heading out the door just yet either

I listen to this and howl to, my oldest is moving 360 miles away to uni, my son is moving up to high school, my youngest is off to nursery. Boohooo

Oh get a grip!

We want them to grow up don't we?

I couldn't believe everyone crying when ds left primary

well rollerskateskinny, it is better than the alternative

Yes I want them to grow up.....Just a bit slower DS1 is now 15 and 5 feet 10

I have this song on my iPod and it makes me absolutely howl - I have sons and no daughters but it's just the sentiment of the years passing etc. Am welling up as I type

Oh ffs! Sitting here weeping.

YANBU.

DS starts primary in August, I can barely think about it without welling up. I never used to be like this, do they give you some drug in the maternity ward or something???

YANBU and I'm sobbing now too. DS is only 6yo and due to start juniors in Septemeber. He will have just turned 7.

I too only have boys, but I totally get that song.
It all went so fast and it keeps getting faster.

I'm not convinced they are slipping through my fingers; I think this new grown-up relationship I have with my teen/nearly-teen is great and just as close as anything we had when they were little. I know they will move from home one day, but we can still be close in different ways and there is more of a person there to be close to iyswim.