To think we've had enough about Christmas plays

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And the parents who complain about the part their child has been given seem to think their child is more important than the other children, they don't need to teach their child that they can't always have exactly what they want, and are almost always blowing a really trivial situation out of all reasonable proportion, doing nobody any favours in the process.

Yup.

So glad I don't teach infants any more. I really don't miss the hours of organising, crowd control of the little ones and aggro from ungrateful parents.

So sad because I miss the children and the nice parents, though.

I'm coming round to thinking it's time to do away with them, looking at all the problems surrounding them.

Depends if the parent is being unreasonable or not. Often they aren't. I don't see anything unreasonable about, for example, wanting your child to have the part they were given, wanting to see all the children on the stage or wanting your child with special needs to be included.

I really hate it when people roll their eyes and say things like 'get a grip, it's only a play.' Different things are important to different people. I'm a performing arts teacher, the different plays I'm putting on for different ages, the ones I'm in and the ones my own kids are in are pretty much the most important things in my life. I like reading about plays. If other people don't then they shouldn't read the threads but there's nothing wrong with posting and they aren't unimportant just because some people think they are.

But my child is the most important surely? You mean the other 59 parents aren't coming especially to hear him say the classic line "Ee-or, ee-or, I'm carrying Mary".
I am most insulted, of course everyone wants to see him most.

Actually DeWe I think you'll find it's my child everyone wants to see

I don't give a flying fig that dd and 2 others have had their lines halved, and others have had theirs doubled. That doesn't bother me, honest. But the anguish and tears every single night because she's frightened and doesn't want to stand up in front of everyone is too much. She was enjoying it until rehearsals seem to have stepped up a gear. Hopefully she will be fine on the night. But knowing another girl is making herself ill over it, quite honestly
I would be glad to ditch it. She's year 1, 5 years old. Did mary beautifully in reception. But year 1, the pressure is just too much.