Stupid question

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This might be the world's stupidest question and I'm embarrassed to ask it. But can you have children if you don't have the personality of a kids tv presenter? I see new parents exhibiting exaggerated excited reactions to toys and stuff and I'm not sure I have it in me!

It’s ok, sometimes these things come to you if you have children and sometimes they don’t and that’s just as ok.

No.

You've just noticed the jazz hands parents that's all.

Jazz hands parents - perfect description!

My dh is a great df but def no Mr Tumble!

Yeah it's fine, I'm nothing like that. To be honest, they're often more interesting when they're your own kids anyway

I'm not like that at all. I'm very reserved!

I couldn't be less like that if I tried, and my kids don't seem terribly messed up by it. It really is different when they're your own kids though, you find yourself being genuinely enthusiastic about some very unexpected stuff.

I don't have children and I could never do all that, The Wheels on the Bus thing and joining in stuff. I'm a Brownie Assistant Leader and feel uncomfortable in some situations but I force myself because it's about the girls not me.

Thank you for your replies.

My auditions for getting pregnant were VERY different.

Good grief! If that is a qualification for being a parent,then I would have failed it abysmally! I was SO not a 'Kids' TV presenter' type of parent. I hated taking my DD to playgroup because of the singing involved (along with the actions) Cringe! And the fact that all the other parens,without exception,seemed to be loving it,didn't help. It's just 'Performance Parenting' that you're witnessing a lot of the time.