This is sort of funny and sort of agonising, so bear with me ..
ds, who's six, has been doing a drama club which ended up with a little performance based on Midsummer Night's Dream.
As it began, with a stageful of little kids hunkered down (except one) director announced "here is our performance of A Midsummer's Night's Dream". The unhuddled down child yelled, "nah, Winter Night's Dream" - a good few times till director gave in; to background of faint squeaks of disappointment from co-operating children. Glint in eye got sharper, rest of display got Worse. Frantic, verging on throat-cutting, gestures from me, which did cut some of it short - but aagh.
Now I realise an obvious answer is not to make him do precious stuff like baby Shakespeare BUT he was completely loving it, till it came to the performance. Then we got this compulsive transgression. And again, maybe that's not so bad in itself, but it was Not Fair on the other kids and their parents.
What would you do? And, since yet again no other child was doing this, do any of you have a child that would behave like this?
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binkie · 09/08/2005 12:04
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