re: #564 Backwoods_Sleuth

I know milestones are important. Prom. Graduation. Parties. Even raising a cow, horse or pig. But the problem with all this is that those could well be the last milestone some of these young people hit.

My kid was denied walking in the graduation ceremony with his class because he missed the math grade by one point. A standard they were doing away with that year. And no one got mad for him or got upset and raised hell with the school except for me. No one was fighting for his right to be with his class and have a graduation ceremony with his class. Instead, they made him go through summer school and he graduated with a class of kids from all the high schools in the county. I wasn’t happy, neither was he, but our milestones are different than most families are anyhow. I guess this is my long winded way of saying that kids will survive without these celebrations. Maybe I’m jaded and mean, but if your kid can’t handle not going to prom or having a big graduation celebration, then you have failed as a parent. Life is full of shit you can’t do or have to wait for. I know they’re kids, and I know I sound like I don’t care, but in the grand scheme of things, these milestones are not that important. What matters is what you do after all that, even if you are disappointed. Go ahead, throw produce at me now, lol.