Yes, your child is amazing

[aprilgail]

I feel bad for ALL of those kids. How embarrassing to have your parents stand up and proclaim their love for you and how proud they are and why.

There's nothing wrong with telling your kid you love them, obviously, but why force parents to do it in such a public place. And to have to listen to 50 sets of parents do it? Barf

Agreed. The whole ceremony sounded terrible before the OP even got to the part about the crazy family that went off the deep end.

The whole thing sounds dreadful! To have to sit there and listen to the whole thing is horrible and to be the poor kid whose parents are up the stage talking about them is even worse!

At my son's HS graduation in June, one family set up three confetti canons at the top of the bleachers. When their DD's name was announced, about 30 people stood up, blasted air horns and shot the canons. The confetti rained down on the entire section of spectators. Everyone else in the crowd turned and looked, pointed and made comments. It was a huge disruption to the ceremony. The next few names to be read were kind of obliterated by all the commotion. I felt really badly for the parents whose kids' names were read immediately after this debacle. No one around me said, "Oh that's awesome. Wow they really love their DD." All I heard was, "How freakin' obnoxious! How rude those people are!" I'm sure they didn't care. They got their moment.

So funny because when my daughter was graduating in my head I was going alphabetically over the 2-3 kids before her before the ceremony to see if it was one of the families that I KNEW would pull that crap and luckily it was not! There was one family that stood up and all stomped their feet over and over on the metal bleachers when their kid was called, screamed and blew an air horn so the two kids names right after that you didn't even hear. Security came to escort them out since you are thrown out if you have an air horn but at that point what difference did it make- they already saw their kid so they didn't care.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

My kid read this and said if you said anything other than hi everyone. I'd like to wish the team a good season, I'd have disowned you.

 

[usd2bmd]

Tis is the problem when you attempt to make people think that you're doing everything right. Everyone else knows that doing it all right all of the time is just not possible. The only one you make look foolish is you.

 

[Nancyg56]

Poor kid! My DGD is in the FFA in her school and awards night is a pretty important evening. There are a few awards that include parents with their kids, and instead of the parents praising their child, the child writes a little speech to the parents. It really is a nice tradition and I am always happy to hear how each students thoughts about how the family support has impacted their success are so different from each other.
These students have a lot of extra curricular projects that at times require a family commitment to ensure they are able to follow through. It is nice that the students have a chance to tell their parents in a formal way how much their support matters.

 

[maxiesmom]

They should have cut the mic after 2 minutes. And kindly escorted them off stage.

 

[lorimay]

They should have cut the mic after 2 minutes. And kindly escorted them off stage.

Like they do on televised award shows, LOL