To be irrationally annoyed that my child wasn't Mary

[TheSkiingGardener]

It was a lovely Nativity, but I still can't shake this mildly miffed feeling that they weren't chosen to be Mary.

I have a son.

That's pretty precious isn't it.

When I was at primary school, the parts of Mary and Joseph were the only non-speaking parts, so went to the quietest kids rather than the "best" ones. I think that's quite a nice way of doing it.

DD's preschool Nativity had equal numbers of male and female angels.

And my primary school had a boy play Angel Gabriel.

I was always the fucking narrator. Never Mary despite being BEB. I found this highly unfair. (Until I realised narrator got most of the lines and I got it because of my "projection" being a fucking gobby caaah)

The best role in dd's nativity was the girl playing the angel. Apparently, her job was to pull bits of feather of her wings and shove it up the nose of the boy beside her, repeatedly. She did read her lines "smell my fluff" very well, though, and I don't think dd could have done a better job.

becoming a school governor usually coincides with a timely recognition of your childs acting ability and plum roles follow.

Worked for us!

The opposite happened to me Get. When I was a governor my dc purposely didn't get chosen for anything. And when I won a bottle of wine in the summer fete raffle another mother said to me it was a fix

DS1 was a shepherd, I can't ever see him getting a speaking part, he didn't know any of the songs and was meant to dance but just stood there with a vacant look on his face, he was very distracted by the tea towel on his head for most of it .
DS2 refused to be in his altogether and sat on my knee watching instead.

getthefeck

"becoming a school governor usually coincides with a timely recognition of your childs acting ability and plum roles follow"

I know you 're joking- or at least I hope you are- but people saying things like this pisses me off sooooo much!

It's a crap Nativity play. Really! Why do people get so wound up about it? Sheesh

I used to be a primary teacher and if one of my kids' parents was a governor, they really would end up cast as a tree or a pig or something - just to put the parent in their place. . Although if the Heads in the same schools had any say in casting, the governors' kids would definitely have had starring roles...

That said I gave the school caretaker's kid a good role because (a) she was competent and smart and (b) he always came rushing to mop up vomit for me cos he knew I was phobic.

Oh and I once had a kid who was terrible at singing so I asked him to mime when they all had to sing. He was the loudest, cheekiest boy in my class but also somehow, my favourite. He thought it was hilarious to sing to wind me up (I have perfect pitch and can't cope with bad singing - One Direction nearly kill me). But I discovered he hated the sound of fingernails on the blackboard so after that if he was a prat, I'd just stand in front of the board with my claws extended and he'd behave.

MIL still nearly cries with pride because DH (6'4, wrong side of 30) was Joseph (aged 4). She's not nearly as emotional about his exam results, degree, marriage... oh no. He peaked in the teacher's son's big green tshirt and a tea towel round his head

Bookofruth
I see your batman and raise you a batman and a spiderman and an ironman
It wasn't planned
The first wise man had a wobble and wouldn't put on his costume but he would wear a batman suit
Well as you can imagine, the other two wiseen wouldn't wear theirs either
It was very cute