erikab922
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Hello ladies, I'm a Baby Clubber but need some help from those of you with older children.
A very dear friend of mine has two children, a girl aged 9 and a boy nearly 5. The whole family sleeps in the same bed and she was able to watch the children full-time before they started school (not a judgment on the sleeping bit, it's just for background info).
Neither of her kids have spent any time apart from her, except the daughter when she started school. I don't think I've ever seen her son in a different room from her in the years that I've known her. This would do my head in (I have a 4 and a half month old) but it's her family and this is what they do and that's fine with me.
Last year he was meant to start his 15 hours a week of nursery, but that lasted for all of a week when she decided it was too difficult being away from him, so she decided to volunteer at the school but it was too hard seeing him with someone else, so she eventually just kept him at home. I was really hoping that giving him a chance to be at nursery would pave the way for when he entered reception because I knew she'd be a wreck.
Well, here we are, his first day of reception and my friend is inconsolable. I know it won't last forever but it was always going to happen and I don't know what to do/say. I work from home while watching my baby (ugh, I know) and she was meant to stop by on her way home from dropping him off at school. We live three doors away from one another with the school at the end of the street and she passes my door on the way back. She was too distraught to even stop by, so I know she's at home now absolutely beside herself and there's nothing I can do.
I don't know what I'm asking for, really, just wanted to see if this is totally normal, other mothers who have felt the same way, etc.
A very dear friend of mine has two children, a girl aged 9 and a boy nearly 5. The whole family sleeps in the same bed and she was able to watch the children full-time before they started school (not a judgment on the sleeping bit, it's just for background info).
Neither of her kids have spent any time apart from her, except the daughter when she started school. I don't think I've ever seen her son in a different room from her in the years that I've known her. This would do my head in (I have a 4 and a half month old) but it's her family and this is what they do and that's fine with me.
Last year he was meant to start his 15 hours a week of nursery, but that lasted for all of a week when she decided it was too difficult being away from him, so she decided to volunteer at the school but it was too hard seeing him with someone else, so she eventually just kept him at home. I was really hoping that giving him a chance to be at nursery would pave the way for when he entered reception because I knew she'd be a wreck.
Well, here we are, his first day of reception and my friend is inconsolable. I know it won't last forever but it was always going to happen and I don't know what to do/say. I work from home while watching my baby (ugh, I know) and she was meant to stop by on her way home from dropping him off at school. We live three doors away from one another with the school at the end of the street and she passes my door on the way back. She was too distraught to even stop by, so I know she's at home now absolutely beside herself and there's nothing I can do.
I don't know what I'm asking for, really, just wanted to see if this is totally normal, other mothers who have felt the same way, etc.
