I just wanted to share with you all that our daughter just graduated from High School! We just got back from the ceremony. I feel like we have just passed a huge milestone, what a lot of work to get here and now for the first time her future is not so clearly mapped out. For a parent it is both exciting and frightning.
Anyway, just wanted to brag a little,
Sandy
Congratulations to your daughter and also to you, Sandy. And my very best wishes for her future. I suppose you’re going to have a party now?
We’ll be headed off to our oldest’s grad in a couple hours. It’s raining buckets. Glad it’s indoors. No party, but she and some friends are going to Nags Head (NC) tomorrow. A very straightlaced bunched I’m relieved to say.
Sandy, incidentally, is making me something I’ll be giving her later this summer.
Congrats, Sandy. What a milestone! I’m right in between…my daughter graduated from high school last year and my son will do so next year.
hey sandy, isn’t that a GREAT feeling…congratulations to both of you! you must be a very PROUD mom
berti
Congratulations to all grads and their parents! What an exciting time!
Redwolf
Thanks everyone for your kind wishes and best wishes out to you too Emmline!
Tonight is Grad Banqet then the prom. Afterwards they are all going to camp out at a one of the grad’s farms and have a celebration so no one will be driving. Thank goodness for that! My daughter’s prom date is a very handsome young piper from our pipe band. He will be in full kilt!
Anyway, thanks again all and to Emmline and all the other mothers who are out there wiping their tears away and watching their babies grow up, Congratulations!
Sandy
Thanks everyone for your kind wishes and best wishes out to you too Emmline!
Tonight is Grad Banqet then the prom. Afterwards they are all going to camp out at a one of the grad’s farms and have a celebration so no one will be driving. Thank goodness for that! My daughter’s prom date is a very handsome young piper from our pipe band. He will be in full kilt!
Anyway, thanks again all and to Emmline and all the other mothers who are out there wiping their tears away and watching their babies grow up, Congratulations!
Sandy
Went to my niece’s graduation last Sunday. She was valedictorian (class size = 100) with a full academic ride to Tulane U.
What I can’t figure is where she got it. Neither of her folks went past high school and in her dad’s (my brother’s) case we often wondered if he’d get THROUGH high school.
Congratulations, Sandy!
My own darling child graduated college in 2002–and (I might add) received a matched pair of D and C Elfsong whistles as part of the celebration.
Very best of luck to all the young folks (well, a lot younger than I am) about to try their wings and leave the nest.
M
Congratulations, Sandy. 
My daughter is starting to smile consistently.
Congratulations to you and your daughter, Sandy! You too, Emmline. I have eight years to go before this event will be occurring for my daughter, but somehow I think that it will be a mere blink of an eye…
Best wishes to all who are embarking on this new phase in their life!!
Thanks all for your kind wishes,
Here are a couple of pics of the Big Day!
Your daughter has the handsomest, best-dressed gent there! Doggone it, guys…why don’t you all start wearing the kilt? There’s nothing that gets a Scottish lassie’s heart pumping like a man in a kilt!
Redwolf
Sandy feels like she just passed a huge milestone when her daughter graduated. I feel like I just passed a huge milemountain, her daughter is my granddaughter! Congratulations to you both.
Proud Mom and Grandmom.
Oh yeah, the “kid” plays a mean whistle too, in fact all 3 kids do.
You can’t go wrong with a Prince Charlie jacket and vest. All of the bling helps too. He looks familiar. Does he play with a band? Is he an islander or a mainlander?
I thought grad usually happened later in June? Congrats nonetheless. Even if she is already of age, you are officially the parent of an adult.
So did you craft a special “graduation” whistle?
Cheers,
Aaron
What age do youngsters graduate from High School and College in the US?
Typically, they are 17-18(depending on birth month*) at high school grad, and four years older at college grad.
*age at school entry varies from state to state–some allow all students born in a certain year to start at the same time, others may require that a child turn 6 before entering first grade.
And this prom thing is at (or near) the end of High School? Forgive the confusion but we don’t have this in England (and I don’t consider it safe to believe everything you see in TV series or ‘teen’ movies.) 
The prom is a formal dance for the seniors (about to graduate) and sometimes the juniors (next class down), and usually occurs a couple of weeks before the end of school. Of course, jbarter, don’t forget that you’re asking questions about the US system, and Sandy (and her daughter) live in Canada. It is actually a different country, with a different school system. 
Steven