We have reached another graduation season and while we are proud of all that students have survived and overcome to make it here to this point in yet another unbelievably difficult year I want to celebrate the parents. I don’t have a graduate this year so I had time to sit back and really observe what parents go through to not just make it through graduation/prom season but just to get through a school year successfully.
Behind every smiling student is a stressed out parent. It’s hard enough to get the kids up to get to school on time but we spent this entire school year in quarantine. Some schools reopened close to the end while others gave you an option to return or remain remote. Remote learning was twice as hard for us, parents, not the students. Not to minimize their struggle but this is our time. We are working from home so to them being home meant we are there to cook all day. No son this is school so use your school stomach until 4:30. Showering became optional while video games became the priority. This school year was very difficult for us especially when power school kept telling us our kids were absent from class and you realize he’s across the hall ditching right in your face. How many times did you all say this year “wake up and get in class.!!” I said it 586 times. This is why we, the parents, need to be celebrated. We made it. We survived the Pandemic University!! We graduated magna cum laude!! We did it.
If your son or daughter finished at the top of the class in the pandemic you mom and dad deserve to be celebrated. If your child finished 140 in a class of 141 you deserve to be celebrated. This was hard but you didn’t quit. You are tired and drained but you stayed in the ring. For that I salute you. We aren’t completely out of the woods but normal is closer than it’s been. The days of in person school is returning. Normal grocery shopping trips are coming back. Peace in your home is near. Until the fall, celebrate your accomplishments. Rejoice with your amazing graduates!!!
This is so funny, yet, it is true. I often post congratulatories to the individuals who have completed a mile stone. Most times, I congratulate the family, moms, dads, and the grandma, there’s a community that assisted in any child’s success. My hats off to you Ms. Taylor, yes, celebrate the parents.❤️