Did/will your relatives make an effort to attend your child's HS graduation?

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<p>No. And everyone was fine with that.</p>

<p>One of my kids didn’t even attend his own high school graduation. We were fine with that, too. </p>

<p>Same kid did choose to attend his college graduation, which was in two parts (whole-university ceremony one day; departmental ceremony the next). I had just started a new job and only had enough time off coming to me to allow me to attend one of the two events. Kid suggested the second event and wasn’t particularly bent out of shape that I couldn’t attend the first. In fact, no one from the family was able to attend the whole-university ceremony. Kid seemed OK with that. </p>

<p>Same kid got a master’s degree last year. He didn’t attend the graduation ceremony and neither did anyone else from the family. He was busy moving to another city to start his new job.</p>

<p>In our family, we don’t make a big deal out of graduations.</p>

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<p>We, the parents plus one sibling were the only ones attending both kids’ HS graduations. I don’t see graduation ceremonies as big events. The celebrations later with friends and family are more important.</p>

<p>We have a close friend who graduated from Harvard, Yale Law, Rhodes Scholar and just retired as managing partner in a top 5 US law firm, did not attend any of his graduations. He and his wife flew cross country to celebrate his son’s college graduation, but all of them (including son) did not attend the ceremony which was his son’s decision.</p>