My baby! It's been almost an hour since I put her on the bus..

Isn't it summer vacation?

I know exactly how you feel as I felt the same way when my son caught the bus on his very first day to kindergarten and how excited he was, and how hard it was for me to let him go. It does take a while but you will eventually get use to it, sort of LOL I was even hanging out for him to come home and tell me all about it, but he was so exhausted and couldn't be bothered talking about his day.

My wife exepriences this every year on the first day of school. Well, that is until this year when she celebrated when they went off to school.

I think most mother go through this anxiety when their kids are away for first time for home. i can't say about me a si am not married and have no kids. may be my mother felt the same way for us.

I have never experienced such kind of thing because don't have kids still but in my childhood I used to cry alot going school. Good discussion, please keep it up.

I don't suffer the same kind of separation anxiety. I think this has something to do with house nature programmed my "Y" chromosome. I love my daughter greatly, but if she goes away for a little while I don't worry as long as I have reason to believe she's safe.

It was quiet? well, Me and my little sister are very close and so I was there on her first day of school and I can tell you afterwards it wasn't quiet..I bawled like a baby that my baby sister was going to her first day of school..I know silly but I am like that. I was just glad to be there to see it.

Well in my place 1st day of school the parent's are still allowed to send their children to their schools. They are even allowed to sit in while the child is getting used to their new environment. Then on the second day starts the formal schooling and parents are not allowed anymore inside the school grounds.

Wait until you become an empty nester, then you will really feel out of it. When my boys went to pre school, they were twins, so one went in the afternoon and one in the morning, so I did not have that problem. I would probably go basaltic if there was no one in the house and my husband away at work. He worked afternoons, so there would be no one home in the afternoon. But when they went to kindergarten, the house was empty until they came home. And i hated it being so quiet. I could hardly wait until they got home and played that noisy Hungry Hippo game.

I can vividly remember leaving both my children for their first day of nursery school. Last year my son began his first year of college. Talk about separation anxiety; I'm not sure who had the worst case of it, him or me. I didn't cry, but he walked us all the way down to the parking lot when we were getting ready to leave and he had his backpack on the whole time. We pulled away and as I turned around, I can see him standing in the middle of the parking lot, with his backpack on waving to us. It certainly reminded me of all the first days of school.

The first few days is the hardest. Then you will realize you have some time to yourself.

Enjoy the peace while it lasts.Do some things that you would noit have been able to enjoy with your daughter around,have some fun and before you know it she will be home.

I will be going through this in a few more weeks but I am also getting ready to move my 2nd daughter to college next Friday. Right now I can't even think about my little girl starting kindergarten because I am stressing out over the one that is going to college. Eventhough I have gone through this with my oldest (she is a senior in college and is living in her own apartment) it still is hard letting a child go. I know that a few weeks of her being away then I will be fine and enjoying the quiet but then I will have to deal with my little girl going to kindergarten. It never gets easy no matter how many kids you have. A week after my daughter starts kindergarten my son will be starting preschool and I think that is almost the hardest because my little guy is my last child and the thought of him starting school means he is no longer a baby and the baby years are gone in my house.

Im not married and I dun have a kid....but I can really imagine whts going on in ur mind....I remember my Mom telling about my first day at School and how much she missed me.... Hope ur kid had a real wonderful day:)

my oldest goes to kindergarten this year too, but they don't go back till the 25th. That day she has orrientation i have to go with her, so the 26th will actually be the first day she gets on the bus herself. She was in preschool last year for 7 hrs, but for some reason I wasn't as worried about her as I am now that she is starting kindergarten. it will be far from quiet at our house though. I still have a 3 year old and a 1 year old.

If its too quiet in the house then turn on some music or something. Girl enjoy your freedom while it lasts!!! Now you finally have some "me-time" in the day to do what you want to do, and not have to worry about your child. I know right know it seems like forever til your little girl will be home. But in about a month or so you will feel like the seven hours is only two. Live it up girl, you've got some freedom!!!

Next year I will know how your feeling. I do have a younger one that will still be at home but I know I will have trouble. I know though that they have a room mother and I will have to be that when my daughter starts school next year. Maybe you can help out at your daughters school on some days it will help you get through the day and schools could use help. My aunt works for the school and they are always looking for some help from parents.

My son's first day of kindergarten was not a big deal for me because he had been going to daycare since he was 3 months old. I was used to it by the time school came around. Maybe you need to turn on a kid movie and spill some crayons on the table to make it seem like she is still there.