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!
You need to frame that one Jenn!
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I love that one didn’t know you were a therapist. 🙂 They are all so sweet. I’m sure breaking the news days were emotional.
Oh how tough but nice it must be to hear these things!
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Good-byes are hard. I love the one who asked who her old therapist was!
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Aww. How bittersweet. I can only imagine this was hard for you as well as the kids. Love these Friday quotes.
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Awww they are keepin’ it real 🙁
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YOur kiddos really love you!!
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You’re kids are so sweet. I can only imagine how hard it must be for you to leave them (I know how incredibly hard it was for me to say good-bye to the kids I took care of as an au-pair, but that’s different).
That first quote cracked me up, though 🙂
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How sweet! I think the 14 yo’s response is the sweetest, in her own way.
And what you told the 10 yr old is true, in one way, learning how to say good-bye to you is one more thing that you’re teaching them as their therapist. It’s an important lesson, and one that we all have to learn at some point.
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Ouch. It must have been really hard to tell your kids goodbye.
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