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24 Popular High School Graduation Gifts for Him (2022)

High school graduation is one of life’s major accomplishments and one that friends and family will want to celebrate with a gift. This list includes our favorite ideas for gifts for guys and includes both sentimental and practical choices. Shopping for your son’s best buds? Here are some wonderful ideas for grad gifts for your…

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30 Perfect High School Graduation Gifts for Her 2022

It’s graduation season, and we’re here to provide you with a bit of diversion — our high school graduation gifts for her. We hope you’ll find inspiration in this list of best graduation gifts for girls with a mix of traditional and trendy. Do you have other grads to buy for or grad parties coming…

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Best Tips for Graduation Party Decorations, Food, and More 2022

We asked our community of parents for some of their best ideas for graduation party decorations and they gave us this treasure trove of tips. From deciding on a color scheme to what refreshments to serve, these super-creative ideas can be scaled for small gatherings or enormous, multi-family open house parties with large guest lists.…

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‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Is a Show for Parents, Teens to Experience Together

This post is sponsored by the ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ team, but the opinions are my own.   When you have a theater kid, show tunes are the soundtrack of your life. As a former actor, I sang my toddler to sleep with a medley of tunes from Carousel, The King and I, and Oklahoma, which she later grew to call…

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Teens Should Thank EVERYONE Who Helps Them Along the Way

Come May, our high-school seniors who’ve applied to college are likely to have lots of feelings. If they got into their dream schools might be thrilled — or they might have a sudden, weird case of buyer’s remorse during which they second-guess everything they’ve ever thought. If they aren’t excited about their options, they might…

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Teens Should Thank EVERYONE Who Help Them Along the Way

Come May, our high-school seniors who’ve applied to college are likely to have lots of feelings. If they got into their dream schools might be thrilled — or they might have a sudden, weird case of buyer’s remorse during which they second-guess everything they’ve ever thought. If they aren’t excited about their options, they might…

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Top 12 College Freshman Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Freshman year of college is such an exciting time — football games, exploring a new city, making tons of friends, and enjoying newfound independence! However, there are many mistakes freshmen can make that can lead to a disappointing first year of college. Top 12 freshman mistakes and how to avoid them  1. Not attending campus…

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Must-Have Decorations For an Easy and Inexpensive Graduation Party 2022

We are gearing up to celebrate my son and the fact he will be graduating from high school in a few short months. His father will be hosting a small gathering after his commencement ceremony in his backyard and we wanted to make it as special as possible. After all, graduation represents years of hard…

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Best Graduation Party Ideas: 10 Things Not to Forget (2022)

My husband and I refer to our firstborn as our “learner child”: we figure some things out on her and make (slightly) fewer mistakes with her younger sister. Case in point: our older daughter’s high school graduation party a few years ago. With the 20/20 vision of hindsight, here’s what I now know I needed…that…

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Six Alternatives to an Over-the-Top, Expensive Graduation Party (2022)

I’m trying to remember how we marked the occasion of my high school graduation, and I can’t. Maybe it’s because there wasn’t a big, overblown celebration, but more realistically, it was over 30 years ago. Either way, I’m drawing a blank. Because I’m not talking about the perfectly lovely little low-key inexpensive graduation party with…

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