Sad day :(

[EchoMom]

Today was the final day for my first daycare baby that has been with me a year. He is only a week apart in age from my own DS so I feel like they really grew up together from 4 months to 15 months.

I've termed one person before, but this is the first child I've had leave and I don't want him to leave. But, parents moved and found a location more convenient and a bit cheaper.

So sad... Veterans, is it just this sad with the "firsts?"

[daycare]

Today was the final day for my first daycare baby that has been with me a year. He is only a week apart in age from my own DS so I feel like they really grew up together from 4 months to 15 months.

I've termed one person before, but this is the first child I've had leave and I don't want him to leave. But, parents moved and found a location more convenient and a bit cheaper.

So sad... Veterans, is it just this sad with the "firsts?"

its sad with everyone of them.....or at least for me it was.

I think I cried when my DCK have either aged out, were termed, or moved away........

I love all of them and I miss them still, just don't lose sleep over them not being here...

Sorry for your sadness..... Hopefully the parents will keep in touch with you and you will be able to continue to be a part of DCK life.... this is that part that I love the most!!!!!!

[littlemissmuffet]

It's always hard for me when a child leaves, no matter the circumstances... unless of course it's one of those rare children I get whose personality mine just does not mesh with.

[Blackcat31]

It is sad for the kids that were your '"firsts" but it does get easier as it happens more often. The only time I get really sad now is when a kid leaves that I was particularily fond of or had a special connection with.

Other than that...it sounds bad but there are times I have to "fake" being sad that a child is leaving when I have gotten so matter-of-fact about it since it is part of the job and is inevitable.

I think it is also a natural instinct to protect myself from getting too attached so that I don't feel so badly when the time comes for them to leave.

[daycare]

It is sad for the kids that were your '"firsts" but it does get easier as it happens more often. The only time I get really sad now is when a kid leaves that I was particularily fond of or had a special connection with.

Other than that...it sounds bad but there are times I have to "fake" being sad that a child is leaving when I have gotten so matter-of-fact about it since it is part of the job and is inevitable.

I think it is also a natural instinct to protect myself from getting too attached so that I don't feel so badly when the time comes for them to leave.

I do have to ditto on that saying that there were a few that I was NOT sad to see them go.

I had to do the fake it until you make it thing until they left.

It does get easier and I do belive what BC is saying about us learning to put up walls so that we don't get so attached to the kids. I have found myself doing that at times!!!!!

[daycarediva]

I do have to ditto on that saying that there were a few that I was NOT sad to see them go.

I had to do the fake it until you make it thing until they left.

It does get easier and I do belive what BC is saying about us learning to put up walls so that we don't get so attached to the kids. I have found myself doing that at times!!!!!

A few of the kids I did fake it, simply because we didn't mesh. Some of the kids I realllllyyy miss. It is sooo hard to get attached to these kids, especially knowing that they could leave at anytime, but my first few were the hardest.

[Sunshine74]

I get emotional the first day of school every year, especially when our kindergartners- formerly my preschoolers- leave for the bus. A lot of them we've had since toddlers, or even infants.

But some you do miss more than others.

[seebachers]

I have only had to term a few and had a couple age out. The ones that aged out and one that I had to term really got to me that they were leaving. The others that I had to term - - - well let's just say, the cartwheels had to wait until their parents car hit where the driveway meets the road. ::