Graduation Messages for a Grandchild, Niece or Nephew
The card from slightly further out in the family. You have the long view, which is the thing the parents are too close to see.
From a grandparent
- 1
I remember you refusing to go into the school building on your first day. Look at you now.
- 2
I have watched this from the beginning and I am not surprised, only delighted.
- 3
Congratulations. You are the first of my grandchildren to do this and I intend to mention it often.
- 4
Your grandfather would have driven everyone mad about today.
- 5
Very well done. Come for lunch and tell me all of it slowly.
From an aunt or uncle
- 6
Congratulations. I have been quietly on your side this whole time.
- 7
Well done. If you ever want advice your parents will not give you, you know where I am.
- 8
Delighted for you. Also, I want it known I bought the first laptop.
The long view
This is what only you can write.
- 9
You were the child who took things apart. It turns out that was a career.
- 10
You have been asking impossible questions since you were four. Now someone is paying you for it.
- 11
I have known you your whole life and this is exactly who you were always going to be.
Questions people actually ask
What do you write in a graduation card from a grandparent?
Something only you remember — a first day, a childhood habit, a question they used to ask. Parents cannot write that, and it is the reason the grandparent card is the one kept.