To not get emotional at end of school stuff?

[MercyMeMary11]

I have nc for this.

I did not get emotional at the start of when dc started at primary school. Nor am I emotional when they leave. Currently youngest dd is leaving primary school and with both dc, I didnt feel much at their respective leavers assemblies.

Other parents, have said, in their own words, that they are "a wreck".

Oldest dd started secondary school a couple of years ago, and I just focused on the practical side of things.

Is there something not exactly right? I think I am the only one amongst my friends- other school mums- who is like this.

I'm notoriously dry-eyed. Not because I'm unfeeling but because I don't like showing emotion in public - I don't like it when other people do it, so try not to foist my tears on them either.

The only time I burst into tears, I could never have predicted it. My son went to an old university and the tradition on graduation day was that they students form into a crocodile and walk out of the college and along the main street to the ceremony. The college staff, porters and cleaners, caterers etc, all line up to see them off - because they've known them for 3 years. As they go, the students stop and bow and take off their silly caps to the college staff. This was incredibly moving - I can't really say why! I think it was that these young, privileged people, who were going on to probably elite careers, stopped to acknowledge what these people had done for them. The staff all cheer them and wave them off. I just burst into tears.

My son had got to know his college staff well and was sure to be appreciative and to buy them presents etc.