Originally Posted By seafairy1622 My son graduated from the 8th grade last night! Can't believe he will be in high school next year! He asked me what I was getting him for graduation and I told him Disney world! It is our summer trip(something that was already planned.) but it is right after his graduation. We leave for DW tomorrow!
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips Seafairy...we have sons the same age! Tarik is going into 9th grade also.... Big congrats to your son... Is your son as apprehensive as mine? I guess it just the word "high school"...he has tons of friends and makes good grades... anyway, have fun on your upcoming trip... My gift to my son is a DL trip with his best friend...in 26 days
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I hope my kids don't ever read this stuff. When they graduated from 8th Grade we went to McDonalds. Trips to Disney? Really? I wouldn't have done that for College graduation. I did give a Disney Trip to my Daughter and new Son in Law for a wedding present. That seemed important enough to celebrate.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Congratulations to your son! We met a couple ?? of years ago at Winchester Mystery House Can't believe he's going to be in High School soon. Have fun on your trip!!
Originally Posted By HRM DisneyWorld for 8th grade graduation.... how about Preschool graduation? ;-) Get 'em that Graduation now, with the cost of a college education, won't be that many of those. :-(
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips When my daughter graduated from college last year .....( with honors)...... I had saved for over a year to send her to Europe .....BUT....her brother was stationed over there and had a place for her to stay and show her around And when I say we are going to DL for Tarik's graduation for 8th grade.....well, we were going anyway ....the present really is he gets to take his best friend with us Now, in all honesty ....I am paying for the friend in full but there is a reason for that also .... As most of you know ....I have been a single mom for many years and this little guy's mom has been there for me many times....babysitting ETC.... So this is my way of showing her my appreciation
Originally Posted By iamsally Such an important milestone. And a trip to DW to boot? Sounds great. Congratulations to you all. My oldest granddaughter graduated today as well. She goes to a small magnet school (only 26 graduates) and is very apprehensive about *high* school.
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips Iamsally....congrats to your daughter also! I am relieved to hear it is not just my son feeling that way about high school....
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost LuvsDsnyTrips, please don't take my comments as a put down directed toward you and what you plans are. I was really just thinking out loud about how much things have changed over the years. There have been many posts here and other boards about 8th grade graduation gifts, and words were a reaction based on my experience that dates back to 1994...my youngest left 8th grade. Just last Saturday we were having a discussion about how my grandson was getting out of 5th grade this week. His mother, my youngest, turned to her husband and said..."What are we going to do for his graduation?" Both her husband and myself looked at her like she had two heads and agreed that..."What for? 5th grade, really? All those years, in our mind, are stepping stones to the important stuff. They are expected of you to get to the congratulations part of life. I know that sounds as if I am being judgmental about people that do more. I'm not, it's just that I am getting to the age where the world has changed from how I knew it and certain things surprise me still. But it is what it is, there are many thing that happen in today's world that I don't understand, and it doesn't really matter...they happen anyway. What you are doing is very nice and I didn't mean to take away from that...just my age showing, I guess.
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips Goofy .....I did not take that in a bad way I am with you as far as how things have changed.... I am not sure why I felt the need to explain....maybe, because I just did not want everyone to think I have tons of disposable money.... Anyway, no hard feelings at all Just to let you know .....some of my son's classmates have limo's picking them up from school on the last day......I just laughed when I heard that one
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 "Just last Saturday we were having a discussion about how my grandson was getting out of 5th grade this week. His mother, my youngest, turned to her husband and said..."What are we going to do for his graduation?" Both her husband and myself looked at her like she had two heads and agreed that..."What for? 5th grade, really? All those years, in our mind, are stepping stones to the important stuff. They are expected of you to get to the congratulations part of life. I know that sounds as if I am being judgmental about people that do more. I'm not, it's just that I am getting to the age where the world has changed from how I knew it and certain things surprise me still. But it is what it is, there are many thing that happen in today's world that I don't understand, and it doesn't really matter...they happen anyway. What you are doing is very nice and I didn't mean to take away from that...just my age showing, I guess. " I think part of it may be that as a society we are putting more and more pressure on kids, so it becomes a bigger deal when they to reach certain milestones. My son is just finishing up 4th grade (not at all sure how that happened, btw, as I have not aged a day). This year he had an average of 2.5 hours of homework each night and 4-5 big projects or book reports each month. If you include the work he did at school, that is an insane amount of school work for a 10 year old. I completely understand doing something special for kids after they have worked so hard to keep up good grades for several years.
