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Today, as a bit of variety I have been running the sound desk at my Daughters School while they perform the school play. Long story as to how this happened, but it's giving a bit back so why not...
Small school, less than 100 kids, the play is a whole school thing... Really good fun, but a couple of hours long.
Some parents bring toddlers. Know I get it that not everyone has child care on tap, and some people would have no choice. What's really got on my tits is the parents who sat with their toddlers bored out of their mind, and chatting, fidgeting, screaming etc. They appear to be quite comfortable with this - while in the meantime a couple of hundred of people are missing their kids lines...
When did we become so selfish? Why on earth do people not take such bored kids out for a break anymore?
Small school, less than 100 kids, the play is a whole school thing... Really good fun, but a couple of hours long.
Some parents bring toddlers. Know I get it that not everyone has child care on tap, and some people would have no choice. What's really got on my tits is the parents who sat with their toddlers bored out of their mind, and chatting, fidgeting, screaming etc. They appear to be quite comfortable with this - while in the meantime a couple of hundred of people are missing their kids lines...
When did we become so selfish? Why on earth do people not take such bored kids out for a break anymore?
Loyly said:
Maybe they don't want to pay for childcare? Perhaps they're not that bothered about missing a few lines in some s
tty school play? It's hardly Shakespeare.
Maybe they don't want to pay for child care and maybe they aren't bothered - but why deny the parents who are?tty school play? It's hardly Shakespeare. They could quite easily get up and take the noisy toddler out of the room - what would they be missing if "they're not that bothered about missing a few lines in some s
tty school play?"Edited by Moonhawk on Wednesday 14th December 21:40
Moonhawk said:
Loyly said:
Maybe they don't want to pay for childcare? Perhaps they're not that bothered about missing a few lines in some stty school play? It's hardly Shakespeare.
Maybe they can't and maybe they aren't bothered - but why deny the parents who are?tty school play? It's hardly Shakespeare. They could quite easily get up and take the noisy toddler out of the room - what would they be missing if "they're not that bothered about missing a few lines in some s
tty school play?"berlintaxi said:
surveyor said:
Small school, less than 100 kids, the play is a whole school thing... Really good fun, but a couple of hours long.
2 hours for a Nativity play, did they have a line each?It's actually really good and emphasises the difference of a small community school
surveyor said:
berlintaxi said:
surveyor said:
Small school, less than 100 kids, the play is a whole school thing... Really good fun, but a couple of hours long.
2 hours for a Nativity play, did they have a line each?It's actually really good and emphasises the difference of a small community school
. We live Bristol but very fortunate to have a small primary school on our doorstep!surveyor said:
berlintaxi said:
surveyor said:
Small school, less than 100 kids, the play is a whole school thing... Really good fun, but a couple of hours long.
2 hours for a Nativity play, did they have a line each?It's actually really good and emphasises the difference of a small community school
You know she's amazing.
Your position on the sound desk skews your impressions of the gig.
Remember that she too used to cry uncontrollably at moments inconvenient.
The important thing is how she felt when she was performing - she will not have noticed the crying babies. She just wants her Daddy to tell her she was amazing.
That's just my take.
Your position on the sound desk skews your impressions of the gig.
Remember that she too used to cry uncontrollably at moments inconvenient.
The important thing is how she felt when she was performing - she will not have noticed the crying babies. She just wants her Daddy to tell her she was amazing.
That's just my take.
Slightly off topic, but I'm glad my sons school split each class up to do their own performances, each class has an assembly takeover a couple of times a year and invite just the parents of that class to watch.
I enjoy them because it's a small group so he's participating for the entire 30 mins. I don't however go to watch other people's kids, they're just a distraction really, so would be bored out of my mind sitting through 2 hours of mostly other kids singing and dancing.
I enjoy them because it's a small group so he's participating for the entire 30 mins. I don't however go to watch other people's kids, they're just a distraction really, so would be bored out of my mind sitting through 2 hours of mostly other kids singing and dancing.
surveyor said:
Today, as a bit of variety I have been running the sound desk at my Daughters School while they perform the school play. Long story as to how this happened, but it's giving a bit back so why not...
Small school, less than 100 kids, the play is a whole school thing... Really good fun, but a couple of hours long.
Some parents bring toddlers. Know I get it that not everyone has child care on tap, and some people would have no choice. What's really got on my tits is the parents who sat with their toddlers bored out of their mind, and chatting, fidgeting, screaming etc. They appear to be quite comfortable with this - while in the meantime a couple of hundred of people are missing their kids lines...
When did we become so selfish? Why on earth do people not take such bored kids out for a break anymore?
Had exactly the same thing on Tuesday. Both my kids go to a rural school with around 65 pupils. Primary one to three (Scottish system) do the nativity and four to seven do a pantomime. It's actual pretty good, especially when you consider the oldest kid there is 11 or 12. Every kid has at least a line, and they practice for weeks. Shame then that three parents dumped their pre-schoolers to one side of the hall and then let them run full tilt up and down for the whole time while the parents watched their older siblings. The sprung floor makes a similar noise to a squash court - pretty impressive when three under-fives can drown out thirty odd children singing. Total ignorance - they're not prepared to miss their kid's lines so everyone else can be damned. Very annoying.Small school, less than 100 kids, the play is a whole school thing... Really good fun, but a couple of hours long.
Some parents bring toddlers. Know I get it that not everyone has child care on tap, and some people would have no choice. What's really got on my tits is the parents who sat with their toddlers bored out of their mind, and chatting, fidgeting, screaming etc. They appear to be quite comfortable with this - while in the meantime a couple of hundred of people are missing their kids lines...
When did we become so selfish? Why on earth do people not take such bored kids out for a break anymore?
To be fair, it's been the same the last three years, and it's different parents each time. I find their indifference amazing.
offshorematt2 said:
To be fair, it's been the same the last three years, and it's different parents each time. I find their indifference amazing.
Every year at the school play, the Head at my Son's primary school asks parents not to video or take photos then upload it to Facebook for one reason or another (couple of kids under some sort of care). There is a DVD available for £5 which the kids involved aren't in - yet every year an idiot will film it and by 9pm it's on Facebook
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