Did you cry at your kid’s HS graduation?

[Anonymous]

Daughter’s graduation is two week’s away and I’m really afraid I’m going to bawl like a baby. Did you cry at your kid’s graduation? If not, how did you hold it back?

[Anonymous]

I cry just thinking about it. There is no way I won't on the actual day. Same when we say goodbye at college drop off.

[Anonymous]

Probably because I cry at every step. It's been nice.

[Anonymous]

Of course I will. I'm not made of stone. Heck, I cried at my brother's graduation (it was a year or so after our mom died and I knew how proud she would have been.) There is no point in me trying to hold it back. I'm just going to go mascaraless and pack sunglasses.

[Anonymous]

I’ll probably be crying thinking about the expense of college tuition.

[Anonymous]

My daughter is still a freshman, but there no way I won't cry when she graduates. You got to think back to the moment she was born and jus think WOW where did the time go.

[Anonymous]

Of course not. I don't understand people who cry at this, unless your kid is blind, deaf and quadriplegic all at the same time. It's not that hard to graduate from HS.

[Anonymous]

I didn't. At college dropoff yes, but graduation no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course not. I don't understand people who cry at this, unless your kid is blind, deaf and quadriplegic all at the same time. It's not that hard to graduate from HS.

Then you can stop think about it. Even if I don't cry, I can still figure out why others would. It's a complicated world and you sound simple.

[Anonymous]

Why would you cry?

[Anonymous]

*thinking

[Anonymous]

OP, I would cry at *your* kid's graduation if I were there. It's normal to cry. It's normal not to cry. It's all fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I would cry at *your* kid's graduation if I were there. It's normal to cry. It's normal not to cry. It's all fine.

Pomp and Circumstance brings me to tears-even if I hear it in a movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cry just thinking about it. There is no way I won't on the actual day. Same when we say goodbye at college drop off.

Same. As I sit here tearing up thinking about my rising junior graduating.

[Anonymous]

Pomp and Circumstance brings me to tears-even if I hear it in a movie.

This what got me - all the kids filing in during Pomp and Circumstance. I wasn't full on crying, but I got that lump in the back of my throat.

They didn't do this at my son's recent college graduation and I didn't feel emotional. (Only the faculty and admin staff filed in - students were already in place)