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14 years ago @ jerrychacon.com - Rewarding Kids for the... · 0 replies · +1 points
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On your points, I don't, of course, know what your son's ceremony was like. My daughter's ceremony...as can be gleaned from our Flickr ( http://u.jc.vc/wxats ) stream ...was pretty close to the one described by Daniel Zwerdling in the NPR piece. In fact, the picture on the NPR site looks pretty close to some of the pictures of my daughter on Flickr -- gown, mortar board, and tassel.
Looking back at my daughter's graduation, I think that a party would have been fine. Sitting in a big circle with families with each kid in turn telling a story about the prior year or their hopes / fears regarding the coming year could have been a lovely closure for that chapter in my daughter, Malena's life. Heck, even a little performance / play / sing along would have been lovely too.
Instead, Malena's ceremony was accompanied by the graduation anthem...names were called...the kids walked across a long stage...the tassel moved from one side to the other. It made me slightly uneasy.
As such, I resonated with the NPR piece a bit more that I might.
In any event, I am not planning to ignore other transitions in my kids' lives...I'm just hoping to not mislead my kids too much as they formulate their own "perspective" on these events in their lives. As I look back, I wonder if all the fanfare at Malena's "graduation" was a bit misleading. I'll probably never know, but I can certainly tell you that I wonder.
Thoughts?
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