Would you pay to see your child's nativity play?

[anonymous-user]

I'd pay a lot more than 1 quid to not go.

[mjb1]

ooo000ooo said:

Mothersruin said:

I don't have kids but I'll pay a pound if you let me bring my camera.

You'll be rumbled straight away, you need the biggest tablet you can hold to make sure that the rows behind you can only see it on your tiny screen. Best to stand up as well just to make sure no one else can see their kids.

Camera's/filming not allowed at our school - it's written in large print on the ticket. Allegedly because some parent's have stated that their kids are in hiding/witness protection or some such crap, although I suspect that's just the school's line as an easy catch all excuse to say it's not allowed.

Tickets were given out freely, but when we got to the door they were asking for a £1.50 'minimum donation'. So you pay that, then get round the corner and they're forcing raffle tickets on you. I expect they'd have raised just as much money if they just did the raffle tickets and scrapped the entry fee.

To top it all off, we're crammed into a hall less than half the size you'd expect for a school of it's size. No staging or raised platform, so no one behind the second row could see anything anyway.

That was oldest child, middle one has his this Friday afternoon, youngest next Weds. I can't really go one and not the others, so that's another 2 half days off work.

I'm not complaining really. Ho, Ho, bloody Ho!

[FredClogs]

My kids school has asked parents not to bring any under 3s to sit I the audience this year, to be fair I can understand why, last year there was more noise and movement from the audience than there was on stage but it's caused an outcry between the mothers at the school gate.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

fblm said:

I'd pay a lot more than 1 quid to not go.

Not if they're your kids - The only excuse as a parent for not seeing and supporting your young kids in the school nativity... is probably that you're dead?

[FredClogs]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

fblm said:

I'd pay a lot more than 1 quid to not go.

Not if they're your kids - The only excuse as a parent for not seeing and supporting your young kids in the school nativity... is probably that you're dead?

I'm not going this year, I'm not dead... Quite frankly the kids have been to the real theatre, they're self aware enough even at 5,6 and 9 to know what they're doing is second rate.

[anonymous-user]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

fblm said:

I'd pay a lot more than 1 quid to not go.

Not if they're your kids - The only excuse as a parent for not seeing and supporting your young kids in the school nativity... is probably that you're dead?

Well I'm certainly not going to watch someone else's! Nope sorry, happy to take them to gymnastics, rugby, swimming, the beach, the park but I draw the line at a frigging nativity play, unless there's a piss up first.

[mjb1]

FredClogs said:

My kids school has asked parents not to bring any under 3s to sit I the audience this year, to be fair I can understand why, last year there was more noise and movement from the audience than there was on stage but it's caused an outcry between the mothers at the school gate.

We didn't have that rule, but our almost 3 y/o was thrown out for being disruptive! Fair enough really, although he would probably have behaved fine if a) he could see any of the performance, and b)there weren't several of his young friends playing nearby, encouraging him to join in with them.

If they'd barred toddlers, then it means one of us wouldn't be able to go to the performance. That invariably ends up being me, as Mum always insists that she 'has to go'. And the kids definitely pick up on me not being there.