Article: TASSELS & HASSLES Graduation parties come only one time a year. Sometimes parents need to step in to set the family's schedule.

The invitations arrive piecemeal, pulled from pants pockets and excavated from backpacks, where they multiply among broken pencil lead, half-finished assignments and leaking Bics.

Others show up in the mail, formal and organized, seeking RSVPs and including for-more-information phone numbers. If you're lucky, there are also directions and a reasonable time frame for the celebration.

You've got a high-school senior who is, indeed, on track to graduate. They're being asked to parties -- and, in most cases, so are you, Mom and Dad -- but it's up to the household's grown-ups to keep track of what's going on. No one expects a high-school senior to keep everybody informed. Not yet, and certainly ...

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