Missing my daughter…
Feb 8th, 2006 by Lillian
My daughter is on a class trip since monday morning and will be back on Saturday. I miss her sooo much ! Its so hard letting your kids go, you spend a short couple of months bonding and then the rest of your life letting go! She’s a more introvert child and can imagine that sharing a room with 5 other girls isn’t very easy for her. Having no privacy will be a big challenge.
Last night at 11pm she phoned and was crying and said she wanted to come home. Oh it was soo hard. Ofcourse I feel like getting in the car and picking her up. An hours drive seems like at the other side of the world! But somehow she has to go through this.. or so THEY say. What on earth can be good for a child if they experience homesickness? maybe I’m just not bright enough I can’t think of a single positive thing that homesickness brings !
Why do kids have to do these ‘Klassenfahrt’ in fifth grade??!!
I miss my little girl. My mind keeps going back to how is she doing now, can she sleep, does she like the elephant hospital they are staying near too.. etc etc.
Only 3 more nights till she comes home….
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Sometimes I wonder if these trips are really necessary. Ours do it in the 4th grade and then in the 6th and 7th as well. And maybe until they finish school. I don’t even know. I better check
On some of the trips they don’t even let (or let’s say encourage) the kids to phone home because a lot of them get really upset. Our older son said some boys he shared a room with at the Jugendherberge in 4th grade cried every night because they were homesick but afterwards they admitted they had a pretty good time.
It’s a part of growing up….I mean, I can’t imagine what I would be like as a person, had my parents not sent me to here and there. I don’t think that I’d learn to become so independent had they not done what they had done.
As Elemmaciltur said….it’s part of growing up (probably both for the child and the parent). On the possitive side it does mean that the child wants to go home, and really misses its parents.
Our daughter is 7 so we probably have all this to come!
Blimey - Our son who is 7 too is away for a lot of the endless French school holidays and he NEVER misses us. In fact when we phone he always tells us to hurry up as he’s too busy….
2 more nights… poor thing is hating it… I think its lack of sleep AND being with people she doesn’t WANT to be with for something SHE didn’t choose to do…. I would want to go home too..
Pauline…A holiday at grandparents place is something diffrent…
I’m so attached to son that I miss him whenever we’re apart. My husband and I had to attend a class the other night and left him with a babysitter. After three hours, we couldn’t get to the babysitter fast enough because we missed him so much. I can really relate to what you’re feeling!
Your poor daughter (and you!). I actually didn’t go on a class trip in the 7th grade (to Washington DC) because I was so worried about who would I room with and what if nobody wanted to hang out with me, etc. I’m definitely conflicted about the value of overnight class trips. She’ll be home soon.
SHE’S HOME. YEAH. We looked at tonnes of pictures and were amazed that she brought us all a gift. I got a postcard with elephant bottoms on it LOL What a gift to give a mum who worried her *** off….
Well, all I can say is what on earth is a Klassenfahrt anyway? another strange German word that sounds very suspicious to me. Mind you, i am from Northern Ireland, so what would I know, right? Does the class all fart together?! i reallt enjoy your site. Keep it up!