Dad Kevin Scruggs of Silverdale, Washington, interviewed his daughter Madison Scruggs, 18, from kindergarten until her senior year of high school. He then created this video montage which has touched the hearts of parents all across the country.
When Kevin Scruggs interviewed his daughter on her first day of school 12 years ago, he had no idea his home video would eventually be shared around the world.
The video features Kevin Scruggs asking his daughter how her day was and what she was looking forward to in the upcoming school year. "Back then there wasn’t a YouTube, so it was just something we were going to sit around and watch at the house," said Kevin Scruggs.
Scruggs did a similar video with his daughter, Mackenzie, on the first day of every subsequent school year. When she graduated from Central Kitsap High School last week, he compiled the clips together to make a video to show at her graduation party.
After the video was received well at the party, Kevin Scruggs uploaded a condensed version on YouTube.
"I thought it would just be something with my dad for my friends to look at...I didn't expect it to go viral," Mackenzie said.
Yet within 36 hours, the video had reached one million views.
"I think the crazy thing in all of this is, I’m just a parent," says Kevin Scruggs. "This is something that I’ve done for our family ever since they were little. There's another parent out there doing some cool thing for their kid. It’s just not on YouTube."