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# A Graduation Speech for Parents

May 9, 2014 1 min read 

May and June are graduation months, whether your kids are leaving preschool for kindergarten, kindergarten for grade school, grade school for middle school, middle school for high school, or high school for college. I think I covered all of them…

But graduations are times to congratulate the parents of the graduates, too. I hope you’ll take a look at my post for Parents magazine this month (click here) where you’ll find the speech I hope  you can give at your high schooler’s graduation this year, or someday in the future.

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