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[quote=Anonymous]We had a big school event tonight and I came home feeling sad and unsettled. My child is in the older 1/3rd of grades at our school and suddenly at school events I don’t know many people and realized that a lot of the people I used to socialize with at school events have kids who have graduated and/or are about to, so they’ve moved on.

It felt really weird to be in a crowd where most of the parents were more than a decade younger than me. I didn’t recognize the majority of the crowd and have never overlapped with them at volunteer commitments or activities.

Parents of kids who have gone through many grades at their school, talk me through this. I thought it would be gradual but it wasn’t. One day I was helping the with the preschool Halloween parties and crafts and lunches and Girl Scouts, and now I’m just popping in for l teacher conferences twice a year. I’m that old person at school cocktail nights that only know a table’s worth of families. It feels like I messed up and dropped a ball somewhere, but I was just following my child’s growing independence.

Should I try to re-engage at my kid’s school, or is this a natural progression and something I just need to accept? I feel sad and am wondering if I should have worked harder to stay connected. We only have one kid so I think that my parent friends with younger kids are experiencing this quite differently.[/quote]

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