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16th August 2019
12:08pm BST
"I just found it weird more than anything because you’ve got this little person that’s been their own free spirit, done their own thing and - even at nursery they’re very much allowed to do their own thing - and all of a sudden that He’s now listening to a whole set of rules that aren’t mine, he’s learning stuff that I’m not even sure what it is because I’m not there and he has to wear a similar outfit to everybody else and eat the same as everybody else. It’s that first point as a parent of letting go."
I felt similarly when my son first started school. I had been a stay at home mum when he was a baby and toddler so it was the first time that he would be spending hours away from me each day. It felt so strange and as Fearne says was a point of having to let go and allowing him to form his own ideas and new relationships outside of me.
Fearne had her own advice for parents feeling this sense of loss when their child begins at school;
"I think you just have to kind of know that it’s normal to feel a bit weird about it or emotional about it because it’s your little baby going off and it’s their first step going into the big wide world properly without you. I think if you feel a bit shaken by it that’s absolutely cool. And then enjoy a day of peace!"https://www.instagram.com/p/BnD-m0PBRbx/?taken-by=fearnecotton I think it's really sound advice and something a lot of parents need to hear. It's not easy watching our children become independent but at the same time, it's wonderful to see the little people they're becoming and wondering what they might be like in the future.
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