Planning for Graduation – A Parent's Guide

Helpful Guide for Parents for School Graduation Planning

While your child's upcoming graduation commencement is a significant educational milestone, it also exemplifies your achievements as parents. The self-gratification and pride that comes with watching your child receive his advancing diploma to the next higher learning is simply indescribable. This very special and remarkable day also represents the culmination of many years of moral, financial, and emotional support. Your dedication ranged from simply packing lunches during his early school days, to chauffeuring them from games and practices, and then finally helping them pack as they head off to college. This graduation is the end of a long and enjoyable journey, but only the beginning of another for you, the proud parents.

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But, don't think you are done yet! As your graduate moves closer to their life of independence, there are still lots of areas they will need your guidance with. Tasks like final exams, searching for a job, and the additional responsibilities that come with graduating, your child will very likely need help in planning and keeping up with various graduation details such as creating, personalizing, and mailing his school graduation invitation cards, party invitations for graduations, or just to send graduation announcements to announce his achievements to the family and friends.

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Before you begin the search for announcements and invitations, you will need to know the difference between the two, and then create your mailing list for each. Basically, the graduating invitation is used to invite those you want to attend your graduating ceremony and / or graduation party. Your graduate announcements are sent to simply announce your have or will graduate. Other considerations include:

• Who to Send Them To – Announcements for graduation should be sent to family members, friends, childhood friends, and teachers or coaches who have influenced your graduate. Since this list is always getting larger, you would be wise to order a few extra announcing cards as there are usually names that were overlooked from the original list.
• Gathering the Addresses – You will need the most current address information for the people on your mailing list, especially those friends and family members whose addresses might not be current.
• Allow for Sufficient Time to Send – You will want to set aside adequate time to prepare, address, and mail graduation announcements and invitations to avoid mistakenly omitting important details. Your recipients will also need time to make arrangements if they plan to attend the ceremony or party celebration, or if they plan to acknowledge the grad's achievements in another manner.

  

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Up to this time, everything you have done has been to prepare your child for a life of success. You can relieve a bit of the final school stress by helping him prepare for the celebration your graduate and family both deserve.

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