Do you celebrate your child's graduation each school year? (party, girls, son)

[diddlydudette]

I don't remember doing it while I was in school but was wondering if it is the norm now. For instance if your kid just finished 1st grade, how do you celebrate? Party where you invite others? Maybe just a gift?

[Hopes]

Heck, no! I have never heard of such at thing. Nobody does it in my region.

[ScarletG]

Originally Posted by diddlydudette

I don't remember doing it while I was in school but was wondering if it is the norm now. For instance if you kid just finished 1st grade, how do you celebrate? Party where you invite others? Maybe just a gift?

Nope...there is normally and end of the year program...but not a graduation year to year.

However, we did, as family, mark each time she ended at one school (elementary to middle to high school).

It's a bit of a stress-er for most kids to move to a completely new school and an accomplishment to get through a stage of education. Nothing wrong with acknowledging that. (Normally just dinner at a favorite restaurant.)

[no kudzu]

I've heard of graduation with cap and gown for pre school which is ridiculous as far as I'm concerned. They do it here for 5th grade as well. Our daughters asked to skip it and we decided to take them out to lunch since we have to pick them up early.
Heck neither one of my grown kids wanted to attend high school or even college graduation. When my son got this PhD he said No Way to that. I really wanted to see that but he could not be convinced.

My step grand daughter is graduating college next week magna c.u.m. laude and she just turned 17. She started college at 12. Now I do believe some sort of celebration is in order there. Of course every kid deserves some congratulations for graduating high school and college but from grade to grade is a bit overkill.

[nightcrawler]

Originally Posted by diddlydudette

I don't remember doing it while I was in school but was wondering if it is the norm now. For instance if your kid just finished 1st grade, how do you celebrate? Party where you invite others? Maybe just a gift?

LOL, the kid just finished 1st grade, the celebration is 2 months off from school.....LOL
party - no
gift - no

there's no party to after a kid graduates a school year.
there's no gift because a kid graduates a school year.

[diddlydudette]

Ok, this friend of mine has posted her 2 kindergarten grand children's graduation video on her Facebook page. The little girls had on caps and gowns and they had a ceremony at the school.

Then she posts pics of their grand daughter that just graduated 1st grade with all her balloons, cookies, presents and I'm thinking maybe that's the new norm now. I find it a bit strange since we didn't do that while I was growing up. We had high school and college graduations where we wore caps and gowns and celebrated but at no time before that.

People are going a little crazy these days with celebrating everything.

Back in my day too, our reward for finishing a school year was a whole summer to play, swim, go to vacation bible school, camp, ride bikes, etc. That was enough for us. We might have gotten a little extra reward for getting good grades on our report cards but no graduation parties or ceremonies.

[Kibbiekat]

No, they don't graduate every year. Preschool, kindergarten, 6, 8, 12. Even that seems like a lot. So far we're only past kindergarten. It wasn't us celebrating, it was the school.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by diddlydudette

Ok, this friend of mine has posted...and I'm thinking maybe that's the new norm now.

It's not the new norm. Your friend is strange.

[rzzz]

I don't think it's normal for public schools, but expensive private schools usually have some sort of semi formal end of year program for each grade.

[glamatomic]

Definitely didn't do it when I was in school! I won't be doing it for my kids, either. Haha. Maybe at the end of Elementary, Middle and High School... but not every single grade!