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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

You're not a freak. I wasn't upset when they left but I did feel a pang when they started school.

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By *ohohoWoman
over a year ago

Up North

Why are you upset PP?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My son did his last GCSE last Friday.

I'm now panicking about what he's going to do next.

To say the last year regarding him & school was stressful is putting it mildly. I love him more than words can say but god, I could have kicked him up the arse some days.

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

Get a Grip.. How are you going to feel when he passes his driving test !!

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"Why are you upset PP?"

I think I want to go back in time and go from him being born through to a teenager again. It's all gone too quickly and I feel like I can't remember him being a child.

The fact that he is less dependent on me too.

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"Get a Grip.. How are you going to feel when he passes his driving test !!

I don't want to get a grip.

I'd actually feel relief, as he wants his motorcycle license first.

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By *ohohoWoman
over a year ago

Up North

"Why are you upset PP?

I think I want to go back in time and go from him being born through to a teenager again. It's all gone too quickly and I feel like I can't remember him being a child.

The fact that he is less dependent on me too."

Ah. I thought it was because he will be under your feet in the house.

PP chin up. You old softie. He is still your little boy no matter how old he gets x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Why are you upset PP?

I think I want to go back in time and go from him being born through to a teenager again. It's all gone too quickly and I feel like I can't remember him being a child.

The fact that he is less dependent on me too."

It means you've done a fantastic job as his mum. Hugs xx

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Why are you upset PP?

I think I want to go back in time and go from him being born through to a teenager again. It's all gone too quickly and I feel like I can't remember him being a child.

The fact that he is less dependent on me too."

I enjoy and celebrate every stage of our kids lives and I especially celebrated the end of their teenage years lol. Don't be upset, enjoy his growing up and don't look back, look forward.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

aww purring hun same here!! My daughter did her's yesterday. We will have a drink on Saturday to celebrate their futures.x

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"Why are you upset PP?

I think I want to go back in time and go from him being born through to a teenager again. It's all gone too quickly and I feel like I can't remember him being a child.

The fact that he is less dependent on me too.

Ah. I thought it was because he will be under your feet in the house.

PP chin up. You old softie. He is still your little boy no matter how old he gets x"

Hopefully he can get a part time summer job before starting college. Just feels weird, like I've lost him somehow.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

This song killed me when I realised my daughter would be leaving home:

Slipping Through My Fingers

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness

And I have to sit down for a while

The feeling that I'm losing her forever

And without really entering her world

I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

Barely awake I let precious time go by

Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

And a sense of guilt I can't deny

What happened to the wonderful adventures

The places I had planned for us to go

Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't

And why, I just don't know

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

And save it from the funny tricks of time

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When he is 53, he'll still be your boy. That doesn't change. Every single major event will have you worrying. It comes from being a parent.

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

"Get a Grip.. How are you going to feel when he passes his driving test !!

I don't want to get a grip.

I'd actually feel relief, as he wants his motorcycle license first."

Must Admit now I would be Worried..

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"Why are you upset PP?

I think I want to go back in time and go from him being born through to a teenager again. It's all gone too quickly and I feel like I can't remember him being a child.

The fact that he is less dependent on me too.

I enjoy and celebrate every stage of our kids lives and I especially celebrated the end of their teenage years lol. Don't be upset, enjoy his growing up and don't look back, look forward."

if I had other children, I don't think I'd feel half as emotional, because I'd have enjoyed bringing up more than one child, but I'm lucky in the sense I've experienced it and got more to look forward to.

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"Get a Grip.. How are you going to feel when he passes his driving test !!

I don't want to get a grip.

I'd actually feel relief, as he wants his motorcycle license first."

Nothing wrong with that I did my bike test 1st then car then the old class 1 and psv. I'm still alive all be it toothless today

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

aww purring hun same here!! My daughter did her's yesterday. We will have a drink on Saturday to celebrate their futures.x"

That would be lovely, I didn't know you had a daughter the same age x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

aww purring hun same here!! My daughter did her's yesterday. We will have a drink on Saturday to celebrate their futures.x

That would be lovely, I didn't know you had a daughter the same age x"

Yeh hun and a younger one as well.

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"This song killed me when I realised my daughter would be leaving home:

Slipping Through My Fingers

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness

And I have to sit down for a while

The feeling that I'm losing her forever

And without really entering her world

I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

Barely awake I let precious time go by

Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

And a sense of guilt I can't deny

What happened to the wonderful adventures

The places I had planned for us to go

Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't

And why, I just don't know

Slipping through my fingers all the time

I try to capture every minute

The feeling in it

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Do I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowing

She keeps on growing

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

And save it from the funny tricks of time

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile "

that just set me off blubbing again. Thanks for sharing xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When my eldest left home I cried and cried. I wanted my babies back

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

aww purring hun same here!! My daughter did her's yesterday. We will have a drink on Saturday to celebrate their futures.x

That would be lovely, I didn't know you had a daughter the same age x

Yeh hun and a younger one as well. "

awwww lovely x

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"When my eldest left home I cried and cried. I wanted my babies back "

I'm gonna chain him to his room

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

that just set me off blubbing again. Thanks for sharing xx"

Sorry, but if it helps it made me cry too. I miss my daughter every day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember feeling the same. However my son has just completed his first year at uni and omg. Overwhelming! Feel immensely proud of him, yet I break my heart each time he goes back after coming home.

Got him home soon for the summer, September is going to be mega tough.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

My eldest leaves primary next year and I'm a wreck enough at that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mine finishes his GCSEs on Thursday. He plans to stay on for 6th Form grades allowing but who knows. I got very filled up when we went out to by his suit and accessories for his Prom. Pride was an understatement and also a sadness that his childhood is over. It's perfectly normal to feel emotional about it.

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"Get a Grip.. How are you going to feel when he passes his driving test !!

I don't want to get a grip.

I'd actually feel relief, as he wants his motorcycle license first.

Nothing wrong with that I did my bike test 1st then car then the old class 1 and psv. I'm still alive all be it toothless today

sorry I missed your post.

I've just been brought up seeing my dad have some awful accidents and it frightens me, but I guess anything could happen in a car too.

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

will come back to the thread later, I need a late night chemist to get him some hayfever stuff! He still needs me yet!

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"Get a Grip.. How are you going to feel when he passes his driving test !!

I don't want to get a grip.

I'd actually feel relief, as he wants his motorcycle license first.

Nothing wrong with that I did my bike test 1st then car then the old class 1 and psv. I'm still alive all be it toothless today

sorry I missed your post.

I've just been brought up seeing my dad have some awful accidents and it frightens me, but I guess anything could happen in a car too."

That's how I lost my sister. The way I see it it's either your time or its not so best enjoy it while it last tomorrow it may be over

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

My eldest leaves primary next year and I'm a wreck enough at that! "

I struggled to hold back the tears at my son's leaving assembly. They showed a video of their residential trip at the end of Year 6 with Elbow's 'One Day Like This' as the soundtrack. I nearly blubbed

Just managed to maintain my composure enough not to embarrass him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

My eldest leaves primary next year and I'm a wreck enough at that! "

when my youngest left primary I sobbed and sobbed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On another note,my son is 27 and no sign of him ever leaving home

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

My eldest is 14 at the very end of August so just about to go into year 10. He agonised over his gcse options & I cried when he finally made his final choices as he put so much thought into them & they could define his future. He wants to join the army in 2 years but I want him to stay home even though he's a ratbag!!

I hope he has a fantastic prom!! x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No this is totally the wrong way to react. This is the start of the journey for them. You should be excited for them not sad.

I'm a single dad of girls and even when they've left for uni I've been happy and excited for them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My sister gets the same every year my youngest niece (I have 3) goes up a school year. She's now 6 but my sister treats her like she's still a baby and she's says she is, but I know she never treated the other 2 the same way at the same age.

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"No this is totally the wrong way to react. This is the start of the journey for them. You should be excited for them not sad.

I'm a single dad of girls and even when they've left for uni I've been happy and excited for them. "

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for his future, college, work etc, but I'm sad to lose my baby/child, but I'm gaining an adult.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wait while they leave home for uni..I was a wreck then...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

wait till your trying to get him out a bed next week to look for work

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By *hole Lotta Rosie OP Woman
over a year ago

Deviant City

"wait till your trying to get him out a bed next week to look for work

hahaha! I'll give it a couple of weeks, he deserves a little break

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Been through it twice now ,third just finished and I still have two more to go ,I've not been too bad with older ones but think I might be a.wreak when it's youngest ones turns..... Not for a few years yet . Hope everything goes well for your son op and big hugs to you x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

its never ending - ive got a second graduation to get through - kleenex love me -

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

He's getting all grown up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So my son did his last GCSE today and has officially left school, but I'm an emotional wreck. Can't stop sobbing.

Any other parents experienced this, or am I just a freak?

No its normal as my daughter done hers a couple of years ago and I felt not needed as much. Xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If he passes he'll be able to keep you in the manner to which you're accustomed

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