Monday Brings Another Graduation
By Kareng
@kareng (74199)
United States
May 18, 2025 1:12pm CST
Monday morning my youngest grandson will graduate from Kindergarten. This is the little tyke that got bit by an eel a few years ago and took it like a champ. He has been very outspoken about not going to school and was held out the first year he could have gone.
He just had no desire to go to school. And he found a way to make it happen. To say this boy is strong willed is an understatement. He's going to grow up and have a lot going on.
His trick was to pretend that he wasn't potty trained because he knew the rule was that you had to be potty trained to go to school. He started the year out, but played the accident game like every single day. By Thanksgiving, the school had decided that he needed more time before attending school. This year his attitude changed and he dove in and loved it.
This Graduation ceremony starts at 9:30 am. I will be awake more than likely, but my husband is suffering from not enough sleep because I am up all night long with this rash and itching.
Hoping that the weather cools off because this will be in the Gym with no A/C! I hope it is not too long! We have a two hour drive to get to this one.
Do you have any family members graduating this year? K, high school, college?
Photo Credit: My Own
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15 responses
@LeaPea2417 (37855)
• Toccoa, Georgia
18 May
My son's best friend's sister is graduating from High School next week. Where did the time go, I remember her as a small young girl.
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@kareng (74199)
• United States
18 May
Exactly! They grow up way too fast! One that hit me hard was when I worked at LSU and had an event mixing wit students. I recognized a name that was of the little girl that lived across the street from us that I baby sat all the time. That didn't seem possible!
Congrats to your son's best friend's sister!
@xstitcher (34173)
• Petaluma, California
22h
No, no one graduating in my family.
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@LindaOHio (188783)
• United States
18h
No graduations here. Funny you should mention pretending not to be potty trained. My husband's 3rd cousin's son did that. It worked for a while.
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@Ineeddentures (1274)
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18 May
I hope that you are still here posting when he graduates High School.
I hope that I am too.
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@dfollin (26059)
• United States
18 May
Great! Congrats !!!! My grandson is going to graduate Kindergarten this year too, but I cannot go. 
I wanted to go so bad! But when the information in I read that only two people can come.
So my daughter called the school and was told that she can't even bring her baby!!!!
I wanted to go so bad! But when the information in I read that only two people can come. So my daughter called the school and was told that she can't even bring her baby!!!!1 person likes this
@snowy22315 (189596)
• United States
18 May
He sounds like a character Nope last person to graduate was my nephew. He graduated from college 4 years ago
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@wolfgirl569 (116175)
• Marion, Ohio
18 May
He is going to be a hand full as a teenager. Congratulations to him
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@RasmaSandra (85058)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 May
How wonderful, Congrats to you grandson,
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@moffittjc (124335)
• Gainesville, Florida
9h
A to your grandson on his kindergarten graduation! Next thing you know, he'll be graduating from high school in the blink of an eye!
That's so funny that he is so strong-willed like that. And from what you described, it sounds like he is pretty smart as well.
@Traceyjayne (1985)
• United Kingdom
8h
Your son sounds a real chartacter ... hope the graduation went well
@Shivram59 (41044)
• India
12h
Congratulations!! I hope your grandson will have a dazzling success in life. May God bless him
It's a cloudy and windy evening here I expect a drizzling within an hour or two 
Congrats 
Congrats 
