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Original poster

I hate small girls who do plays and expect you to be their audience

89 replies

activate · 14/12/2010 21:30

After 16 years of just boys I have entered a horrible phase with my 6 year old girl where her friends come round and work out plays and then expect to perform them to me

I can't stnad it

I found myself explainging today that they need to stop and the important thing about a story is a start, middle and end

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Hulababy · 14/12/2010 21:44

kittykittykitty - DD has a video camera and Gorillapod coming for Christmas o it will be put to good use as DD and her friends record their own shows :)

notnowbernard · 14/12/2010 21:45

I had the NAtivity last week

Their bedroom was recreated as The Stable

They even borrowed DS (4m!) to be the baby Jesus

DD1 was a bit worried his bouncy chair wasn't all that authentic Grin

nobodysbaby · 14/12/2010 21:49

I feel your pain, though we've moved on to song and dance routines now. You could try insisting on script approval so you can veto anything that doesn't reach a conclusion in ten minutes or less.

FattyArbuckel · 14/12/2010 21:51

Yabvu and unappreciative

Maisiethemorningsidecat · 14/12/2010 21:53

Fatty - can I send you my DD and her friend for you to appreciate please? Wink

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activate · 14/12/2010 21:55

God I'm not watching again - if they want an audience they have teddies

Why pander to them? I have no intention of encouraging this particularly annoying trait

not one of my boys has done this and dd woudn't either if it wasn't for her friends deciding that's what they'll do

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hmc · 14/12/2010 21:56

Pah, you old misery guts! Its sweet!!

FellatioNelson · 14/12/2010 21:58

God no, YANBU, the brats. Grin It's not so bad when it's your own child, as you can always look genuinely enthusiastic, but when it's a friend's insufferable child and you have to sit there for fifteen minutes not quite knowing how to arrange your face for the best, it's hell.

christmaseve · 14/12/2010 22:00

Oh I forgot about all this, plays then dance routines. Just grin and bear it and stop being a misery. It's important to them, they think they are the best thing ever Grin.

Fontsnob · 14/12/2010 22:01

The 'magic' shows are the most painful experience, especially the same trick over and over and over and over and over...??zzzz

Original poster
activate · 14/12/2010 22:01

no

I won't watch again

it's terrible

I'm not going to encourage kids to be awful at something

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sims2fan · 14/12/2010 22:03

I inherited a class after a term of the school year a few years ago who liked to put on 'shows' for me. "Mrs Sims, Mrs Sims, we've got a new show to do. Can we show the whole class?!" If I was in a good mood, or we had finished work 5 minutes early I would sometimes say yes, and about 4 or 5 of the girls would stand at the front and sing and dance for everyone. I think High School Musical 2 had come out recently as the songs were generally from that. It was actually quite funny to watch, because none of them ever knew the whole song (they were 5 and 6) and would take their cues from the most confident of the group, who would sing the same couple of lines over and over again. A few times I had to lead the rest of the class in enthusiastic applause to signal to them that the song was over! It was generally the girls that liked to do this, but after a bit of a lecture given by me to the class about how it was very brave of them to get up and sing and dance (after a couple of little horrors had said some cutting remark about a routine) I did have a few boys want to do little routines as well after that. One was absolutely dire, but I think because it was the boys doing it the rest of the boys were so enthusiastic in their applause you would have thought it was the best thing ever! Lol.

TattyDevine · 14/12/2010 22:13

YABU but I am SO WITH YOU ON THIS ONE OP

Tryharder · 14/12/2010 22:14

You bunch of misrable sods.

My Dss (6 and 2) do a fantastic rendition of Alisha Dixon's "The Boy Does Nothing". I am training them up for The X Factor in about 15 years time with DD (4 months).

Grin
FattyArbuckel · 14/12/2010 22:17

Maisie send these little girls to my house. My dd is too old for that stuff now and I miss it!

serin · 14/12/2010 22:18

I admire your honesty and feel your pain.

QueenGigantaurofMnet · 14/12/2010 22:19

Oh i am sooo with you.

DD and DSD are like this. they get together and do a dances and shows.

i paint on a small whilst i die inside. the worst bit is when they catch you look away.

A1980 · 14/12/2010 22:28

It's a bit much if they do it all the time but just think, in a few years time she'll be a grumpy teen and wont want to show mummy things anymore....!

JuneBugJr · 14/12/2010 22:28

Jesus, do they really do this??

Ive had a day of 2 7 year old boys talking to me about motorbikes and wrestling, and was thanking god I had a very girly girl, but this sounds far far worse. Shows??!

YADNBU - what age does this thing start, DD is 2.5 and already wants to sing constantly and dance, and your saying it gets worse?.

SpringHeeledJack · 14/12/2010 22:40
Grin

you're so brave to post this OP

I always like it for the first 5 minutes ( mostly "dance" shows involving leaping around to Lily Allen Hmm) but they start to get a bit rough after that- and then I crave a quiet, dark corner

mamatomany · 14/12/2010 23:06

My girls don't do this but the neighbors child does and sounds like a strangled cat, I pretend we're out when she knocks when I can get away with it.

BigBoldAndBeautiful · 14/12/2010 23:17

Soo funny!

Thankfully my girls used to video themselves and/or perform for their grandma (thanks mum) Grin

I was spared that pleasure.

mummytoatribe · 14/12/2010 23:23

My lot do this alot too but after they have spent all day making posters and tickets, they usually neglect to put any time at all into the play itself, so they are usually mercifully short. Oh and the ending is normally a blazing row because "YOU should have said ..." "NO!! I want to do ...."

And then I clap and hand out the well done treats!

WilfShelf · 14/12/2010 23:31

Jeez, yes. Am so glad I have geeks. Have seen this at girl houses and it drives me insane. They're like Louis Spence meets Joan Rivers meets Stalin. Give me Warhammer any day.

TottWriter · 14/12/2010 23:34

My sister and I did this, only we were too ambitious.

We started scripting a full-length Robin Hood parody complete with musical numbers. We put so much effort into writing two or three of the songs and the first few scenes that we never even got to the rehearsals stage. Our dictaphone radio station was similarly short-lived. Possibly it was for the best...

Then we were at it again a few years later, with plans for another full-length feature - a stop motion sci fi film! Grin

Mind you, my sister is now studying film, and both of us are avid writers (how good we are is still probably subjective!) so I would grin and bear it (and will, when DD reaches that age). At least it shows creativity as opposed to just watching telly all day.