Husband to not attend nursery graduation?

'Expect' King Charles is he?

Sure nice to do family stuff but a 4 yo 'graduation' the world will still carry on

lol, don’t be daft, most will habe max one. If any. Parent there,

It's just last day of nursery before they go to school. They haven't taken any exams or achieved anything, no parents should be guilt tripped into attending. For some reason the nursery staff have given themselves (and parents) extra work by making this a "thing"

If it was a degree graduation, after GSCEs, A-Levels and 3years (or more of study) fair enough then parents expected to attend. Even a school prize giving where children have worked hard for exams or results would be important.

My parents didn’t even come to my graduation after 6 years of vet school as they didn’t want to leave the dogs. That’s really hurt but nursery isn’t a big deal if one parent is there

PFB op?😄

Let your husband enjoy this day and remind him of it when you need some time to yourself to enjoy a hobby / time with friends. The words “nursery graduation” sound insane so I can kind of see why he doesn’t think it’s super important xx

Why are so many people acting like this hasn't been happening for years? Pics of 4 Yr old with their wee caps and gowns have been popping up on my FB for ages. Loads of those kids have had their actual graduation since.

It's a made-up thing to mark the end of nursery. That's all.

OP, I wouldn't expect DH to cancel something for it, as long as someone is there for your DC to see. If it's his turn, though, and he made plans while knowing this was coming up, I would be pissed off.

Come on, most four year olds would be totally oblivious to the fact that both parents weren't there. They're four! It's a tiny little ceremony. A week later they will have forgotten it.

YABU. It's a total non event.

It will matter TO THE CHILD when they see other kids there with their parents

The other kids won't all have both parents, not by a long way. And some DC only have one parent. It's really not this big trauma TO THE CHILD. There'll be umpteen nativities, sports days, concerts, blah blah to attend and THE CHILD seriously will not remember many of them.

This can’t be a serious post. Can you imagine 😂

Nursery "graduation" is bollocks. As long as one parent goes that's fine. Just make sure you aren't doing every last nativity, parents evening, assembly, sports day. Divide and conquer. Just one of you go and the other one use your time for something worthwhile.

Very very VERY few children will have 2 parents there. One is enough. And a granny/grandad if you really want to bump the numbers.

Working parents can't always get time off for these made up "events". And even though this isn't a work event it is something he has already committed too. He is part of a team and has committments to that. Trivialising it to "it's not the Olympics" is bitchy to be honest.

Nursery graduation!! What utter nonsense. I'd not expect him to go, and only go quite reluctantly myself.

I couldn't get het up over this to be honest, he'd be better off going to his sports event.

My youngest is 22 now. There was thankfully no such thing as graduation from nursery back when mine were that age.

My son is eleven and I can't even remember his nursery 'graduation'. It's lost in the distant past 🤣. My husband would have been working.

My dd “graduated” nursery over 20 years ago….some parents were there, some parents weren’t.

I don’t think there’s any emotional scarring in these now 26/27 year olds

Nursery graduation? Seriously? If he was missing an actual graduation- you know from university - then I could understand it. But at age 4? Americanised nonsense- I bet they wear gowns and mortar boards too...

I think one of us would feel obliged to go but I one of us had something planned we wouldn’t be cancelling it

They have a photo is a little cap and gown with a scroll. Cute photo, they don't remember it. Same as what happens now.

The annual "is that new" discussions are very tiresome.

Nursery 'graduation' is a joke. I wish I'd had a reason not to attend. I thought it was bloody ridiculous that there was a graduation from something your nothing except age out of

It’s not a big deal at all. Honestly there will be school speech days, sports days, plays for the next 14 years.
This is really minor and one parent going is fine. There is no way we would both take time off or attend something like this.

Yanbu, I clicked on this thinking it was some kind of work thing he couldn't get out of but a hobby? That would infuriate me too.

Also to anyone who thinks nursery graduations are stupid that's neither here nor there. It will matter TO THE CHILD when they see other kids there with their parents.

Nursery graduation is not a thing

I've heard it all now. What's wrong with just having a bit of a party for the kids on the last afternoon?
No ceremony or certificate, parents' attendance strictly optional.

My cousin graduated from nursery 20+years ago

I mean... they didn't. They left nursery and had a (probably lovely) little goodbye celebration.