To feel sad that the schools are going back tomorrow?

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I'm in Scotland and the schools are starting back tomorrow. I have a 6 year old DD and although I agree that everything should go back to normal and the kids need to return to school for both their education and their social relationships, I am sat here tonight feeling a sense of dread.

I have been lucky enough to be able to stay at home for the past five months with my DD. I struggled very badly with postnatal depression and to be honest never really felt very connected to my DD as when I was on maternity leave I was struggling and then when back to work I was still struggling and working on top of that.

This past five months with my DD have been an absolute pleasure, we have been in a little bubble and I have never felt a bond quite like it, i feel like all the natural feelings have came rushing and now I don't want it to end.

I feel really, really sad that normal life will resume because these past 5 months have genuinely been the best of my life and I believe my DD has enjoyed it too.

AIBU to want this to continue for a couple more months?

Mine are going to start going back in 2 weeks, and Im really going to miss them. Mine are older and so we dont spend loads of time together as a family as they are all busy with their own things/friends/different school schedules. These last few months have been just lovely and they have all become much closer friends than they were before.
I will enjoy a break from cooking for 3 teenagers and one hungry tween every night though!

My son goes back Wednesday. I’ve watched the lights go off behind his eyes during lockdown. It’s been hard, I’ve had to work from home. There’s been no homeschooling here. Neither of us have the patience. I my happy, funny, sociable boy back. I have some concerns. But bigger picture he needs to be back at school for all our sakes. He’s going into p7.

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The kids need to get back to school/normal ASAP

Mine don't go back til September but they already started back in June. We're all really excited about it.

I see what you're saying and can understand your feelings given the past. However try not to think of this as losing something, try to look back on the past 5 months as a gift. Just because your DD is going back to school doesn't mean the last 5 months is gone, or that things have to go back to how they were.

Things will be different, but you'll still have new closer relationship.

It is important for the kids to go back and have some normalcy.

I did feel some concern when my ds went back to school at the beginning of June but it was really well managed and absolutely fine.

In England so they’re not back again until September, with dd starting secondary school. Obviously these aren’t the circumstances in which I’d like her to start but we have to get back to normality.

Like a pp, I found that it was really bad for my children’s mental health being off - ds in particular because he’s younger, but also for dd who only had one week of her last term at primary school.