Mourning the impending loss of Primary School years

[PrincessConsuelaBananahamm0ck]

My youngest is in year 6. I've recently realised how close we are to it all being over and I feel inexplicably sad about it. I'm usually a pretty normal, unsentimental and level headed person. I think the effect of covid making the last year so shit and impersonal makes it seem worse. I've recently even found myself regretting not having a third child. Jeez. Tell me, am I alone in this bizarre malaise?

I feel your pain, it's so sad to let the past go but there will be new things and milestones to celebrate and enjoy. I've learned this from experience. I missed all the things my dd left behind when she went up to high school and wrongly tried to push my younger ds into similar activities because I'd miss them. But I stopped that and let him do what he loves and I love those experiences too

It is a really stark milestone, @PrincessConsuelaBananahamm0ck - and I doubt you are alone. Stark may not be the right word, but what I mean is that it seems like a really big change - you’ve had all those years of walking them to school, waiting at the school gate, being so necessary - and that changes when they go to senior school, so it is only reasonable that it feels like a big change.

I’ll stop rambling now - sorry.