About school play

[HecateQueenOfWitches]

I probably am.

Or perhaps I am being honest.

I don't want to go.

My son has 2 lines. It's hours long and he's got 2 lines about 3/4 of the way through.

I don't want to sit through a couple of hours of other peoples kids.

I don't care about other peoples kids. I don't want to sit and watch them for 2 hours and I strongly suspect their parents don't care about watching mine.

I of course will go and smile and laugh along with everyone else, because that's what you do, isn't it?

So. AIBU. Am I wrong in believing that other people secretly feel this way too but are too polite to say?

I think that I am right, but I fear I may in fact be a heartless, unnatural cow and actually other people are interested in the toe-curlingly embarrassing performances of other people's children (the toe curlingly embarrassing performance of your own child is of course delightful )

Be honest. You know I can take it.

I think the enjoyment is definitely in proportion to how big your own child's part is

I don't think YABU at all but I am a very selfish woman who only really cares about my DD and the children of people I care about/like.

We've just been to DS1's school play.

He was fantastic! Definite Oscar potential.

All the rest were embarrassingly bad. It was nearly the longest 90 minutes of my life, second only to the infant school Christmas disco.

YANBU

I'm a nanny and had to go to a charges sports day this week. 32 races of which charge was in 4 Yawnnnnnnn!

I really feel for you!

It's hideous when your child has such a minor part in comparison to the overall length of performance.

YABNU - school plays when your child has a wincy little part are positively yawnsome.

Ours was 30 mins. Ds was a flower complete with pink flower attached to his head. His role was similar sized to all the other children. He and all the other children were fab. I go to support ds and his teachers whom I know put a lot of effort into putting on the performance. I don't like children and do my best not to spend time with them but I do admire what the teachers have done with their raw material! So YABU.

We still talk about the horrendous night that was ds1's Year 7 production of Noyes Fucking Fludde. Nobody wanted to be there. Including ds1.

phew. so far so good.

This is something I can't admit in rl! Only to my husband. I said "But I don't care about other people's children."

To which he replied "I know you don't, but you have to pretend."

You've only said what everyone else thinks! YANBU!

I will be bitter until the day I die about the fact that the same girl in dd's class was Mary in the nativity three years in a row

Hetcate I dare you to go and post this on netmums. Double dare

DS school play was a blardy hoot - terrible overacting, raging pfb, malfunctioning costumes and fights breaking out. I could have watched it twice!

I have to say though YANBU - I remember when I was a child in the 1980's my parents used to pitch up for the 5 minutes I was on during the 4 hour long extravanganza and then bugger off for the bits inbetween.

YANBU.

Although dd1 has never quite forgiven me for saying, after sitting through an interminable music concert when she was about seven, that if she ever becomes a famous flautist I will wait in the bar!

Last year's school concert lasted over three bloomin' hours and I couldn't even see her.

I know the feeling - we have Dance Show this weekend - 60 odd dances and DD is in the 6th one - so I have to sit there until the interval before I can escape! Will need to return an hour later to collect her though!

yanbu

I went to a 90 minute prizegiving yesterday.

My hands still hurt after politely clapping other peoples snot-nosed kids.

thefirstmrsd - you're bloody kidding me, aren't you?

I feel so liberated folks. I mean, I have had the mild rebuke from Molly, but I still feel so liberated!

Ooh no YADBU! Maybe we're just v lucky in our school but the four productions I've seen have all been ace (and this is the first year that any of my kids have been on stage - previous years they've just sung and I haven't really seen them). I blub every year!

you need to develop the art of day dreaming. its a chance to sit down and do nothing but think your own thoughts. Your hands will automatically know when to clap.

My DCs school does afternoon and evening performances,just so no-one misses out. (Thoughtful huh?) I have 2 DCs in primary school, each doing their own play, so usually watch 4 performances. This is only great if your DCs have proper parts and are not just in the chorus. So OP, YANBU and are just saying what everyone thinks

You cant bloody see anything for all the lunatics with video cameras trying to get the best shot.

They cant just watch the sodding thing. They have to edit it and stick it on frigging youtube.

My dad never came to anything at our schools. He had a 'bad back' and couldnt sit in the chairs - apparently

I quite like them.

You and me both QueeferSutherland

YABU (though I'll allow that you're entitled to your own opinions)

I like watching it all. They've all gone to such a lot of effort, the children seem to enjoy it and to work really hard for it, they sing so beatifuily. It's really a pleasure to watch. And if their acting is dire, so what? And if they mumble their lines least I can't hear how bad they are!

think that's bad - wait till the primary music performances. 4 million dear children squawking and screeching on clarinets and violins and your own child on last (or not at all if they get stage fright and refuse to bloody play)

Take a cushion, and a hip flask