do your parentes or ILs( in my case) make your kdis "perform" for their mates

[OrvilleRedenbacher]

drievs dh and me mad
all farkign showing off

[mumto3girls]

Yes they would if allowed..hilariously though the girls all seem to catch on at a young age and act like they have no idea what grandma wants...

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

You mean like song and dance routines? Like "I went to Italia Conti and I'm a precocious brat let me do my rendition of "On the Good Ship Lollipop" twenty-seven times to general applause"?

Gawd, no. My kids don't "perform". I'd shoot 'em.

[OrvilleRedenbacher]

lol no
just anythign

climbthat tree
play your guitar

etcetc
drives us nuts

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

Though I do remember ds1 (aged about 2) doing "I'm a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat" about a million times for Grandma and Grandad and my brother and his wife (she's now ex-wife; I wonder if it was all the dingle dangling?)

[OrvilleRedenbacher]

lol
it was the contstant refs to flippy flooppy

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

No, not really. Not my parents and not ILs ...musing now "are my children's grandparents disinterested in their grandchildren's abilities?"

[DarrellRivers]

my parents made me do it [cringe]
poor friends
and it was violin recitals euch
more like squealing cat recitals
my DCs will never do it

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

Yes, I used to have to play my flute for everybody. The milkman used to look really bored.

[DarrellRivers]

Was it a 70s thing perhaps?
look how musical my children are

[kslatts]

My parents and IL's don't do this but dd1 is learning the recorder at school and asks anyone who comes to the house if they would like to hear her play, including an electrician who did some work in our living room a couple of weeks ago.

[OrmIrian]

I once (and only once) went to my mils for CHristmas. DH's sister was there with her horrible DH and her 'talented' children. MIL persuaded (ha!) her granddaughters to run through their repertoire of instruments after lunch. It was hell and it put me off ever allowing any child to learn the violin. How I managed not to run screaming from the house I do not know....

Still not forgiven MIL tbh.