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Article: TASSELS & HASSLES Graduation parties come only one time a year. Sometimes parents need to step in to set the family's schedule.
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- May 19, 2006
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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 ...