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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
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The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Tina	Report	4 Sep 2009 22:27
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Whilst watching the morning news yesterday there was an article on the TV about how Mums feel when their little ones go off to school for the first time. They kind of had a tear in their eye watching the first steps into the big wide world. I felt that feeling come flooding back when my little boy went off to school 16 years ago. I had the same feeling the first time he went to the shops on his own to buy some batteries. I had the same feelings the day he went off for his first overnight stay on a school trip. I had the same feelings on his first day at "big" school. I had the same feelings the first time he went abroad on a school ski trip. I had the same feelings when he went off to his school leaving prom. I had the same feelings the day he started college. I had the same feelings the day he went for his first job interview. I had the same feelings the day he went for his first driving lesson. I had the same feelings the night he went out for his first "legal"drink! I am having the same feelings right now as I prepare to see him off to Uni in the next couple of weeks. Do you know what I mean? Do those feelings stay with you forever, do Dads feel the same or is it just Mums? I will miss him but I hope that he will acheive his dreams and I promise not to let him see those tears, I look forward to the bag of dirty clothes coming home when all the clean ones have run out!! Good Luck Son!!! Mum When do those feelings stop for our first born?? Do they ever stop??
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,322 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	4 Sep 2009 22:30
	I don't think they ever stop, and then you repeat it all with grandchildren!!
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Tina	Report	4 Sep 2009 23:06
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Thanks for saying those nice words Barbra-I know I'm not on my own feeling like this but sometimes you feel a bit daft don't you!!!!
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 3,907 Send Message	Jean (Monmouth)	Report	5 Sep 2009 19:46
	Once nursed a lady of 97, who's biggest worry about being in hospital was whether her 70 yr old son was airing his vests properly!, so no, you always feel like that.
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 1,241 Send Message	Wildgoose	Report	5 Sep 2009 20:58
	I shall never forget these days: The day our eldest left home to live with her friend. She came home three times the next week for dinners and brought her washing home! The day we left our youngest at her uni digs The day we left our youngest at her hospital lodgings when she started work far from home They days when they all married... Sometimes I think of the days they were all born and the eldest is nearly 35. No, those feelings never go away. It's the bittersweet pleasure of motherhood. An elderly neighbour once told me that having children meant armache when they're little and heartache when they grow up. :'-) That's supposed to look like a teardrop! Janet
	Researching: Northampton/Blisworth Northants/Hinderclay Suffolk
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Tina	Report	6 Sep 2009 11:00
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 126 Send Message	Feelings of Motherhood are so strong aren't they? Is this why as children, teenagers and adults we rarely tell our parents EVERYTHING!!! We only tell them what we think they want to hear, I know I still do it to my Mum and Dad and I'm 46!! I don't want then to be worrying about me!!! The replies on this thread are lovely to read!! Tina I now know why my Mum was still doing my brothers washing every week even though he was 35 and had been left home since he was 21!! ( He has bought a washing machine now and does his own since Mum is 75 and nearly blind!)
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 480 Send Message	Meduck	Report	6 Sep 2009 12:12
	A colleague at work in her forties and married, often had her mum popping in at lunchtime with some sandwiches for her, because she was worried that her daughter wasn't eating properly My son is 28 and lives on his own, I often do an extra dinner for him and give him a joblot to put in his freezer as I also don't think he's eating properly

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