<p>My daughter’s HS graduation is just around the corner and fellow classmates’ graduation party invitations are starting to arrive. Several of the invitations are Open House parties inviting our family and some just inviting her. I had planned on getting gifts for a few of my daughter’s close friends. Is is also appropriate for my daughter to bring a gift to every party she attends? </p>
<p>Any advise from parents with HS graduation experience would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Gifts would probably be nice, but I doubt anyone will kick your daughter out if she doesn’t bring one. :)</p>
<p>My d exchanged “gifts” (usually home-decorated picture frames and such) with her good friends. If the kid were a friend of the family, so that we would go to the open house as well, we brought a gift from the family. D didn’t bring gifts to the open houses, and she was in the majority. Otherwise, these kids would all go broke!</p>
<p>I could be wrong, but I don’t think that gifts are expected at graduation parties. If invited as a family, I’d bring a dessert…</p>
<p>Typically in our town, adults invited to grad parties gave gifts (cards w/$$), but students/ friends, not so much. Close friends of my son’s gave cards with lovely notes; one or two gave a small meaningful gift (book, cd, etc); most students just enjoyed the celebration.</p>
<p>Same here. Friends of the family (adults) brought a gift (either a card with check or gift card inside or a meaningful book or CD) Friends of the graduate were free to go to the party. Close friends exchanged gifts outside of the parties.</p>
<p>Around here, parents take gifts to the open houses they attend. The families are only invited to the parties of the kids they know well. The students, who attend many of these parties, may give small gifts to close friends, otherwise they just give cards if they give anything at all.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your advice! Sounds like most of you are insync w/ parents giving gifts when they attend a party and classmates just enjoying the celebrations and sharing gifts with their closest friends outside of the parties.</p>
<p>By the way for any of you who are looking for gift ideas, there are some other threads on this forum addressing creative graduation gifts and I thought there were some really great ideas!!!</p>
<p>My son didn’t bring gifts to any parties. We (parents) brought cards w/$$ to the parties we attended. Son’s friends and their parents did the same when they came to our party. How much money might depend on how well you know the child. Regardless, we didn’t expect anything from his friends or their parents so each check was a lovely bonus! </p>
<p>I suspect DD and her friends may get each other small sentimental gifts (picture frames, etc) because it’s a girl thing to do.</p>