Kids Quote Friday – On Leaving

Me: I have to tell you some hard news. I’m going to be leaving, and moving to North Carolina so I won’t be able to work with you anymore.

Kid: What, I’m so bad you have to leave the country?! –8 y.o.

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Me: I have to tell you some hard news. I’m going to be leaving so I won’t be able to work with you anymore.

Kid: <refuses to talk for 45 minutes> Well, I’m just going to say, whoever gets you in North Carolina is really lucky <storms out of office> –14 y.o.

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Me: I think you’re really going to like your new therapist.

Kid: New therapist? Who was my old one?

Me: Well, me.

Kid: Oh. What’s a therapist? –7 y.o.

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Me: Sometimes part of the lesson I can teach you is how to say goodbye in a healthy way.

Kid: Well, I think that part of the lesson just really sucks. — 10 y.o.

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Happy Friday, everyone!