September born child friends leaving to go to school in in september...

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Hello,
My child is September born and his friends are leaving to go school in September whereas he has another year left at pre-school. His best friend is also leaving. I broached the subject with him yesterday and he burst into tears. How do I handle this situation? Do I just let it happen and he'll come to realise his friends are not there in September?
He quite a popular child and is friends with all the kids that are leaving...he however doesn't seem to talk about any of the younger kids. Probably because he was born in September so is more in par with the older kids.
Anyone else gone through this?

I haven't been through this, but I'm about to, so I'm following with interest and sympathise because I'm in the same boat! My (early October born) DS is going to miss many of his pre-school friends. Nursery will be doing some farewell activities so I'm hoping that will help ease the transition, but ultimately I suppose I'm hoping he'll be distracted by the children that are left with him in the pre-school room!

I don't want this to sound rude but most kids are fickle with friends and forget quickly.

My daughter had to be moved to a speech and language nursery. The nursery she was at she had a strong friendship group and is a child who takes a looooonnnngggg time to settle and needs familiar adults/peers to even interact with the classroom environment. I was so worried but she just took it in her stride. She's starting reception this year and still sometimes mentions her previous friends but there's no turmoil or pining after them.

There will be other children a similar age to him maybe a couple of months younger than him but still at his stage of development. He'll be fine. If you want him with older children some school nurseries take children on the term after they turn three so most people would be older than him.

I think sometimes all the talk of people leaving and goodbye ceremonies sometimes makes the actually reality seem more daunting than it is.

Don't forget there will probably be some new children joining in September- so there will be new friends for him! Mine went to a different school from her nursery friends so we kept up some playdates to help ease the transition!

Oddly this will be the second year in a row that my DD will have good friends disappearing from her childcare settings and notice. Last year it was just her CMs but this year it will be from both CMs and nursery.

Anyway from the end of June my CM just explained to her who was leaving e.g. X is going to school in September. My DD then told me that X is going to school in September.

In September and beginning of October, my DD was a bit sad as she no longer saw two of her friends however she got to meet and play with different children.

Interestingly the younger children she is friends with are mainly boys, there as the older ones are girls.

Thank you for your replies! It has made
me feel more at ease but still feel sad for him.
Maybe because I don’t like change myself and it’s a sign he’s growing up and will be leaving nursery soon. I can’t believe how quick it’s gone. It feels like yesterday that I was putting him in nursery as a baby and I remember all his friends that are now leaving.
I hope he will be okay.
They are doing story time and activities around children who are leaving and I think it’s upsetting him a bit as he thinks he’s going to school with his friends too and I have to keep saying no, he’s staying. He’s old enough to understand what’s happening but doesn’t neither if that makes sense.
It doesn’t help that he seems to be the only autumn born child in his class.