Getting emotional about youngest leaving primary?

[melikalikimaka]

I am now working myself up about my youngest leaving primary school, where I have made lots of friends and aquaintances. I feel it's my life that is going to change immensely not just DC. I am going to be a complete mess on the last day. I'm even avoiding a mums do to avoid getting upset. Am I the only one who is so soppy? Am I being over the top and unreasonable?

Just because you won't go to that school everyday, it doesn't mean you won't see your friends anymore.
Will any of your DC's classmates move on to the same secondary school? If so, you will still see some of the mums too.
You will be able to keep in touch with the mums that mean a lot to you and you will make new friends through your DC's new friends too.

The end of an era is always sad, but it leads on to new and more exciting times.
In my experience, the change is never as bad as the anticipation of the change.

YANBU. I'm emotional too- dd is only in Year 5 at the moment so it's ridiculous. Just found out DSs new teacher is someone I dislike (I work in the school) and she is desperate to leave. Not happy this afternoon.

Same here melika

I think I will find it all worse than ds for same reasons - my own selfish social life! I've got an older dc in secondary and you tend not to really meet/know other parents there. I have kept in touch with handful of good friends, but their lives change too and it takes that much more effort to keep in contact and meet up. Great when we do but it's no longer an everyday occurence.

I know I need to get over myself but in the meantime I'm stocking up on tissues

I was the same when DS1 left but he went to a senior school where most of the class also went to. This time, I know I will not go into that building, chat, be invited to school functions etc. He is going to secondary with one other boy and I do get on with his mum. It is the end of an era. I know I will be crying as I walk into that last assembly and people will wonder if I am a lunatic. I just know I cannot be strong, I am a complete wimp!

My second child is leaving primary this year. I will find it sad, it was sad when DS#1 left 2 years back. I will be heartbroken when DS#2 leaves in 4 years. It's not even that I have made loads of friends - I have lots of acquaintances - but it's the end of having a 'child' in some ways - secondary school heralds teenage years and a whole new stage. I am really enjoying the new stage but it will still be sad when we are done with primary - residential trips abroad instead of day trips to do pond-dipping and bug watching, no more paint-smeared masterpieces to bring home. Primary was safe, contained, the children still cute and cuddly. Secondary is less so and a bit scary tbh.

We've had lots of 'last days' at various schools in the last two years and it can be emotionally draining. But life goes on and there are more friends to be made among secondary school parents: at the touchline, PTA, secondhand uniform store, parent-teachers, etc, even if there isn't such frequent contact.

I wouldn't worry about crying melika I would have thought it was compulsory! The school secretary rang me the other day to check if I was sure I didn't want tickets to the evening performance of the leavers assembly because 'it's so lovely and everyone's in tears!'

Yeah, it's almost mandatory to sniff a little.

Any more mums who may need a valium on last day for DC?

Well, I've just been to the leaver's assembly and it wasn't too bad. I think it's cos I decided I was going to cry so why try and stop it! There were lots of watery eyes and red noses there. It's so sad to think it's the end of an era, they are not going to be little anymore. Teenage tantrums here we come!!

Well I just cried reading this and thinking about DS1 leaving primary next year

Good luck with the rest of your day