![]() Excitement about the high school graduations of acquaintances' children tends to be somewhat limited. Send the announcements if you like, but please only to people you have reason to believe would be pleased to be notified. Graduation announcements are also interpreted as such in these crass times, although surely all that is necessary for a recipient to do is to offer congratulations. Guests tend to interpret them as - well, what you also suggest: gift-grabs. It may be a good thing that the pandemic partially halted those grown-up parties for graduates. And the people you ask might resent being given homework. The idea of soliciting advice for him was undoubtedly well meant, although that might not be on a teenage boy's wish list. How nice to celebrate your son's graduation, and in a way that is tailored to him. Miss Manners was with you until you mentioned that. GENTLE READER: In order to extract money from relatives and their parents' friends? What are kids doing these days instead of graduation parties? My thought is that this would be a way for extended family and old friends to recognize his accomplishment, and maybe also for him to receive some monetary gifts to use on the trip. I think it would be neat to hear what advice my older family members have to offer. On the card, I would have them finish the sentence, "If I could go back and give my 18-year-old self one piece of advice, it would be. I thought about sending out graduation announcements with a little card for the recipient to send back. But I had an additional idea, and want your advice on it. He suggested a trip, which I have agreed to. He says he doesn't want any acknowledgment, but this is a huge milestone, so I want to do SOMETHING. ![]() I worry a party just wouldn't go well for him. ![]() ![]() We no longer go to church, and have moved 45 miles from our previous hometown. Little bro doesn't have many friends, and hasn't found any teachers he connects with. ![]()
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