Which is hardest?

Question

Which is hardest sending your oldest child to kindergarden or your youngest?

Answer 1

They are both equally hard. The oldest one will be hard now and when the time comes for the younger one to go it will be the hardest for that time of you life. I personally feel that seeing the youngest off would be the most fullfilling, only because you have seen all your hard work paying off right before you eyes. Just wait till high school graduation! EEK

Answer 2

I think your youngest although you oldest will be hard because it's the frist time you've done it but i think it's your youngest because then you realize your youngest child is going off to school so that means that you are getting older.

*none of my kids have gone to school yet so i dont really know.

Answer 3

For me, it was harder to send my 3rd born to kindergarten. When my oldest went to K, my second child was almost 3 and I was 7 months pregnant with our 3rd child. I was so busy that I never really had that weepy time with sending her off to K since I was living mostly in the moment of potty training a reluctant boy and trying to figure out how to fit 3 kids into a 750 square foot 2 -bedroom home (tried to sell and buy a bigger house, but it just didn't work out until our oldest was 1/2 way through 1st grade). I really, really wanted to have 4 kids, but my husband really, really only wanted 2, so we compromised on 3. I knew that my 3rd born would be our last so I relished everything about her school years and mourned each passing milestone. She was the only one I wept for after I dropped her off at her K class that first day of school. Until our youngest was 8, I still held out hope that my husband would give in and agree to "just one more". After she turned 8, I reluctantly gave up the idea, but we never did anything permanent for birth control. I had been on birth control pills since our youngest self-weaned from breast-feeding at 11 months. I had no problems so my doctor said I could keep on the Pill as long as it was working. When our kids were 18, 15, and 12, I started having some difficult stomach problems with pain whenever I ate. My doctor's diagnosis was Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Imagine all of our surprise and disbelief when a regularly scheduled yearly physical revealed I was 17 weeks pregnant! I had no idea - I'd lost weight due to the stomach pain (which I had been meaning to do anyway), I had regular periods because of the Pill, and I had no pregnancy symptoms like any I'd had with my other 3. So, after I went through all of those emotional "last times" (last one to go to K, last one to be in elementary school, last one to hit 10 - the first "double digit birthday is a big celebration at our house, etc), I had to start all over again. Surprisingly, it has not been as hard to go through everything with our 4th born as it was to go through it all with my 3rd born. I think part of the difficulty with my 3rd child was the sadness that I was never able to have the 4 kids that I wanted. I was not necessarily thrilled at 38 to become mom to 4 kids as I would have been if I was younger, but my husband is so much happier as an "older" dad than he every was with our younger 3. God does have a way of making things all work out.

Answer 4

your youngest.. the oldest may be hard. but sending the youngest off gives you the realization that your kids are growing up.

Answer 5

I have been told it is the youngest but she won't go until next year. I did fine with my oldest, he started 2nd grade yesterday so it's old hat with him at this point!

Answer 6

Well, I won't know for 2 more years. I cried when I sent my oldest but not my second. I am pretty sure I will cry with my last. I am also sure I will cry at graduations too.

Answer 7

probably the oldest.once your oldest goes to school then the youngest is easier.at least to me it was.plus my kid's went to preschool and so i was already use to it.

Answer 8

I'd say youngest.

Answer 9

oldest becuz u haven't done it before.... and once one kid already did it is easier to explain what it will be like, and u can say well if _____ can do it u can do it...

Answer 10

Get lost!