I know some of you will think I am a cynical, mean mom, but I know I'm not the only one. Monday night was O's preschool "graduation." There was a ceremony and a party. They wore caps and gowns and each child received a diploma. To me, graduation should be something earned, worked for - it's not an automatic (or shouldn't be, anyway) - and preschool is certainly not one of these earned occasions. The same goes for kindergarten, too. I think kids need to understand what it means to work hard for something, and the fact that we so easily praise automatics explains much about the entitlement attitude I see far too often today.
So, needless to say, we did not go to the ceremony. O would have refused to get up on the stage anyway. His teachers were a bit sad he wasn't there, and I do feel a little bad about that. They've done a great job with O's class this year. So yesterday when we picked O up from preschool, I let his teacher put the cap on his head and we snapped a picture. We picked up his diploma. Ah, praise for mediocrity (not that O is mediocre). It's a cute picture, though.
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