I admit it, I've been a cynic about the growing trend of allowing kids to "graduate" from anything other than, say, high school. Since I was a kid, it seems graduation ceremonies have multiplied, and now kids are donning caps and gowns for eighth grade graduation, elementary school graduation, and yes, even preschool graduation. From the outside looking it, before I become a parent, this trend just seemed to me an extension of the growing American over-emphasis on self-esteem -- making everybody a winner, and conflating every move up a grade level into some extraordinary achievement.
But I am a cynic no more.
I liked the home-made motorboards.
They were made of construction paper, and each preschooler decorated his or her own.
No rented graduation caps for these kids, nor formal robes. This was a happily home-spun graduation, from a warm, fuzzy preschool.
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