"But trust me on the sunscreen"

I always get a bit nostalgic around graduation time, but maybe a little more right now since i have three nieces graduating from high school this year and my own kiddo is “moving up” from sixth grade to middle school. I remember the excitement of finally being done with high school and wearing the hideous brown robe (go West High! brown and gold!) I remember college graduation and the bit of fear that it was a little more real this time when you say goodbye. Then my grad school graduation where I got a fancy hood and giant diplomas (and a load of debt :) )

I was writing cards to the girls and thinking of the advice or knowledge I would like to give them but then I remembered Baz Luhurman does it best with this song. https://youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI I really can’t top the advice written by Mary Schmich- I mean “don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts; don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours;” pure gold.

I did feel mildly shocked when I listened to it today before writing this because a few times she talks about things when you’re 40 (which I am now) and I remember thinking at the time this song came out how old that sounded.

What advice would you give to kids graduating from high school this year? To the sixth grader going into middle school or the eighth grader facing high school in the fall? Telling them to wear sunscreen sounds about right to me.