Confirmation Speech from Parents – Inspiration and Examples

Ivy, your first day of school ended with me consoling you at the school gate for a good half hour — you clung to my leg in the playground for so long that a teacher eventually had to help peel your fingers off, one at a time, while you wailed that you weren't staying there without me.

I went home that day convinced the phone would ring every five minutes. It never rang once. When I picked you up that afternoon, you were sitting in the middle of the playground with three new friends, like nothing had ever been wrong, and I had to hold back tears myself — this time for a completely different reason.

It's more or less continued that way ever since. You walk into everything new with dread first and calm after, and I've learned my job isn't to remove that dread for you — it's to stand at the gate until you work out for yourself that you're going to be fine. Today you stood perfectly still in that church, without a single tear, without once looking back for me.

— Confirmation speech, father