Is it okay to skip my kid's college graduation?

[Anonymous]

Do your daughter a favor and skip the graduation. You are clearly the type of parent (or sibling) who prefers to choose your own pleasure over her feelings so you might as well confirm that to her now. That way she can move on without you in time for her wedding, professional accomplishments, children's births, etc. She will obviously need other people to support her for life's milestones so she might as well find that out now and save herself more heartache.

[Anonymous]

You should be at the graduation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's no way this is real.

+1

[Anonymous]

Is it OK? NO its not OK. Surprised you even need to ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe this is a real post because I have family who calculate all social occasions like this:

Graduation: no alcohol -- not going
Wedding: alcohol -- going

Drinking problem, OP?

It is August. A college graduation would be happening next May. I have trouble believing this OP is already planning wedding travel now for almost a year from now and the DD knows graduation weekend already or is even thinking about it. I'm sorry that would happen in your family but this poster is still just stirring up shit.

I don't know about the wedding part, but the daughter almost certainly knows when graduation is--colleges typically publish the entire academic year calendar, so in August you would know when spring break, finals week, and graduation would be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just graduated from college, and while my parents and I were all surprised when extended family wanted to come to the ceremony, it was no question that we were all going. If my mother had chosen another event over my graduation the damage would have been irreparable. Go to the graduation.

Oh, and fwiw, my alma mater has graduation dates set through 2015, so not that far fetched for op to already know all these dates.

+1 Major events at universities are booked waaaaaay in advance, folks.

[Anonymous]

Troll. I bet it's the "aftercare is cruel" troll. Get a life!

[Anonymous]

nope.

[Anonymous]

My father did not go to my high school or college graduation for his own selfish reasons. That was 20 years ago, and I still haven't really forgiven him.