S/O will you watch nieces, nephews, cousins graduate?

[mamamary]

My daughter just graduated high school this month and I didn't invite any family members. My family is all out of state and the graduation was a Monday night. If they lived close by then I would have asked certain relatives since I had a few extra tickets. My husband's family lives in the area but we didn't ask any of them. I don't remember being invited to any niece/nephew graduation ceremonies but we all def. went to the parties.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Would you or have you gone to watch your nieces or nephews or cousins graduate?

I will come if invited and if there are tickets available.

I don't remember if we invited our wife's sister and husband to our daughter's graduation. To be honest, that year was a bit of a blur for me.

 

[Lyricallie]

My sister and I are the youngest out of the cousins. My sister never went to University so no graduation to go to. With mine we only got 3 tickets so it was my Mum, SDad and my gran. My sister and bf managed to get stand by seats. My Auntie and Uncle came to the dinner afterwards in the nice restaurant.

With my BF, (although same Uni he had a later in the year graduation so there were more seats available per person) it was myself, his parents and his sister.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

We are a close family that loves to get together and celebrate. Give us a reason to celebrate or have a party and it's on. We love to be there for special occasions and to make memories as a family unit. My mom is the oldest of 6 girls so I'm closer in age with my aunts and have 15 first cousins alone. They are closer in age to my children so I consider them my nieces and nephews. They are more "first cousins" to my children.

Most graduations are ticketless if they are outside. My sons will be on the football field at his school so plenty of seating so I expect about 15-20 people will come for him. He is the first grandchild and great grandchild on all sides. All of his great grandparents are alive (except for one) and I'm sure all of them will be in attendance.

I couldn't imagine missing my niece or nephew's graduation if there was a ticket available. Especially not the after party.

 

[cluvsdisney]

Yes, if there were enough tickets for us to attend our nieces or nephews graduations, we would attend.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I just have one nephew. He graduated 2 weeks ago and I went. It never crossed my mind not to go. DH didn't go because it was in a Thursday afternoon and it is hard for him to get time off work. At the actual graduation was me, my parents and my brother/sister in law (nephews parents). There was a party that weekend with about 50 people at my parents house.

 

[soccerdad72]

Probably not - my two siblings each live a couple hour drive from us and often, graduations are weeknight affairs, so it would be difficult to get to. Our son is the oldest of the cousins and graduates HS in 2 years, so we'll see if my brother or sister come up for his graduation. I would guess that they won't be able to, but maybe my sister might come, as she's my son's godmother.

We're not opposed to going to them, it's just a matter of logistics (and tickets, if necessary).

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Tickets for graduation are for immediate family. My sibs came to my children's HS graduation's. Probably won't go to college, although they might. My sister will.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I've gone to all four of my nieces' so far, but they only live a few minutes from me, so it's pretty much the family norm. (I go to some of their plays and recitals and things too.) Parents can get up to four tickets in a reserved section, but otherwise it's open seating.

I don't remember if I went to any of my own cousins' as a kid or not. DS did just go to his cousin's not very long ago - mostly because he had been to all her older sisters' (as he was too young for the first two to stay home alone, and his usual sitters were also there ) and he felt bad skipping just hers. None of us would have been expected to come if we lived far away, though.

The whole thing made me think a lot about my own graduation. It was so different back then - mostly because I had a much smaller class (about 120, as opposed to almost 300) but I also remember fewer speeches and recognitions, and that it was early in the day on a Saturday rather than everyone scrambling to get there from work on a Friday night.

 

[pryncess527]

No

 

[KathyTX]

Goodness, no. Our local high school classes have close to a thousand kids. Graduation is an ordeal: multiple schools scheduled in tight blocks at a nearby college stadium, traffic jams, parking problems, loooonnnngggg ceremonies.

For friends and relatives, we skip the ceremonies and celebrate at the graduation parties where we can actually visit with and congratulate the grads and parents.

Now, if I were close to a graduating kid who had no immediate family to be in attendance and who wanted me there to support and witness the achievement, of course I would be there for them.

 

[Kae]

I've done 3 nephews High school ones and 2 College and 1 law school, had to miss my nieces because DS was playing in a state soccer Tournament. Will have another niece next year.

 

[clori]

I know I didn't go to my brother's high school graduation due to having chicken pox. I only went to one niece/nephew's graduation. I went to my nephew's high school graduation 3 years ago. His school has a special award given to the top ranked male and the top ranked female (it can be val/sal but not always). My nephew was the salutatorian. For the award the students pick a school representative to talk about them usually a favorite teacher. My nephew choose the school librarian since he felt he spent time in the library all 4 years. The librarian was very excited. My brother asked me to go to the graduation so I did.

I really enjoyed the speech the librarian gave for my nephew but it probably bored most people. I was actually interested in the speech for the val. However she is Italian, had family here for graduation from Italy, and choose the Italian teacher who gave her speech in Italian. For one of my niece's (nephew's sister) my brother told me to go to her last choir show in college since she had a solo. It was interesting since it was a sign language choir. In general I know graduations are boring so only go if asked.

Next year we will have my younger dd's 8th grade "graduation" from a k-8 school, older dd's high school graduation, and my nephew's college graduation. I'll definitely go to my girls graduation.

 

[mousefanmichelle]

If we were a small, close family I could see where I would want to go. My family isn't like that so no aunts or uncles have come to my kids grad ceremonies but grandma has come to 2 of the 3 of my kids. I've gone to our nephew's college graduation one. You are showing support of the grad and I think it's nice to go and probably makes them feel good!

 

[Rachie0507]

I am close with my nieces and nephews. I have gone to all graduations or watched through life stream if unable to actually attend due to limited tickets. I even flew to SC for my nephew's Boot Camp graduation. I think it depends on the family dynamic. I would never have expected most of my aunts/uncles to attend my own graduations but there were a couple I was closer to and they went.

 

[North of Mouse]

Yes, we just returned from our grandson's graduation 200 miles from us. The weather was great, in fact cold, and it was held outside, so no limit of attendees. Our g'dau. graduated three years earlier, rained, so was held inside - very few tickets available, but we were included.

 

[Mickeypooh99]

I'm very close to my niece and nephews. We live in a small town. No tickets needed for graduation. So yes I've gone and will go. I never considered not going. I also went to my nieces college graduation. That was a long ceremony!

 

[xlxo]

I would and have. As mentioned.... only if there's a spare ticket.

 

[Shanti]

After reading some of the responses in the graduation thread, it got me wondering..

Would you or have you gone to watch your nieces or nephews or cousins graduate?

Personally, I haven't and I don't think I would if asked. I won't ask my siblings to watch my daughter graduate next year. Heck, none of us siblings watched the others graduate either. Our Uncle didn't attend and our Grandparents didn't either.

I don't understand the importance of watching your second cousin graduate when all you're actually witnessing is them sitting in a crowd for a few hours then seeing them for a whole two minutes up on the stage. But, to be fair, I don't understand the point of having 200 people at a graduation party that includes co workers of the parents.

Yes, I absolutely plan to watch my nieces graduate.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Where we live, they are put on streaming so you can watch even from another state. It was that way for my nephews graduation last year in California too. We watched that one.

My other nephew graduated this year in MN but they didn't have streaming services so we were not able to watch that. I would've if they had it.

Where we live in Georiga, they stream the graduation and alot of my family watched my son graduate 4 years ago. My daughter is an upcoming senior and family members told me to make sure they get the link so they can watch her graduate in 2018.

I know I wouldn't fly to another state just for a graduation but do enjoy watching relatives graduate on the streaming services.

I forgot to mention that we also give each other heads up that the relatives name will be called soon so you don't have to watch the whole thing - it's really nice that way! Much better than waiting through 2 - 3 hours.