To not want to take my 2.5 year old to Peppa Pig live?!

[samanthajonespr]

We're setting off in an hour to see Peppa Pig Live, 2.5 year old son is having a little nap to ensure overtired tantrums don't tear their ugly head.
Husband is currently pacing around the kitchen putting shopping away periodically announcing that we're not going because our son won't behave and "all the other children will be sat nicely". I am fully prepared to go with the flow and am prepared to be either pleasantly surprised by his good behaviour or ready to carry him out of the theatre under one arm. How can I talk husband down? because it's putting us all on edge tbh. This is our first time doing this sort of thing as he's our only child (for now)

*rear their ugly head

We went 2 years ago with my then 3yo.

They're not really expected to sit quietly and are actively encouraged to sing and dance along, we even had ushers blowing bubbles around us and firing water pistols into the crowd! It was great fun :o

Tell your DH to chill out and let your son be a kid!

Tell your DH to stop being so dreary and spoiling the fun with his moaning.

Haha not many kids sit nicely at that age for prolonged periods of time.any parent that says otherwise is lying or been along time since they've had little ones.

I’d take your son and leave your DH at home if he’s going to continue to be uptight about it. What’s the worst that can happen? Your son cries and you just leave the theatre and wait in the foyer until he calms down. No big deal.

Haha your DH is a fool. Take your child, it's quite good fun. It's aimed at toddlers and preschoolers and nobody will bat an eyelid if your child is bouncy.

I’ve sat through Tweenies live, CBeebies live & balamory live ( thankfully all a long time ago!) every child there is up singing, dancing & shouting along - it’s not like going to the opera!

Is your husband always a controlling grump with utterly unrealistic expectations and a poor opinion of a normal child?

I took my 2.5 to see Bing live a few weeks ago, he jumped and screeched his way through. As did a lot of the other TODDLERS it was aimed at. Enjoy!

He can be anxious and uptight, yes. I'm actually coming out of a very low period of depression and anxiety and for the first time ever I'm feeling confident in my abilities as a parent. So maybe I'm the way he's acting has deflated me rather a bit.
Our boy has been going through the terrible twos recently which is fair enough but I stay at home with him so I'm more used to it, according to him. I'm really trying to get him to chill out, he's just weird about taking him out anywhere.
I'm glad to hear it's fun and interactive, that's what I was expecting tbh. I think my husband thinks all other children are good as gold and we've got a bad egg.

We took DD1 when she was about 2.2. She sat nicely for some of it, danced in the aisles for the rest. Like all the other kids there!

Leave your DH behind, sounds like he can't behave even before he gets to the show. I haven't been to Peppa Pig Live but have been to plenty of similar things, no one expects children that age to sit quietly for long, they will totally know their audience and you may be surprised how well he does behave because he will probably be totally absorbed in what's going on.

I assume your DH doesn't know many 2 year olds

We went to Peppa pig live a few years ago and 3 adults and a DC loved it

It's not like a play where you would notice one child shouting but hopefully you have seen it by now and had a lovely time

Your DH needs to go to this so that he can look around and see that kids are crazy, noisy, giddy, naughty, quiet, cheeky, loud, serious, funny, daft and every other combo in between. He needs to lighten up. Your son is not a ‘bad egg’.

Peppa Pig live is not Hamlet performed by the RSC, no one expects a theatre full of preschoolers to sit in rapt respectful silence. Take your so and have had fab time.

It's an audience full of kids just like yours!

These sort of shows are meant for toddlers and it will be expected they will dance and squeal in excitement. Go and enjoy it.

What happens at Peppa Pig live?

Hope it went well. My DH enjoyed in the night garden live. Me and DD were out the back watching it on a tiny screen as she freaked out in the first 5 minutes and we left the auditorium before terrifying 6' iggle piggle came back on ! I beleive he sat nicely but then he was 41.

sonjadog

What happens at Peppa Pig live?

Toddler anarchy - what happens at peppa pig live stays at peppa pug live

Presumably your DH hadn't met many other toddlers? Hope you all had a brilliant time.

Hope your DC enjoyed it!

It’s peppa pig live, not Shakespeare! It’s aimed at young children, no one will care about excited toddler behaviour.

Well husband kept his cool after a pep talk, but son did not. We were sat in the front row and as soon as the lights came up and music started he started digging his hands into my arms and his mouth hung open in horror at the weird robot puppets and people standing behind them doing the controls. I thought it was charming and there was a lot of interaction but our boy just started shouting "No!! No!!! Please go home?" And tried to physically climb behind me on the seat so he could hide. We tried to help him enjoy himself but in the end he lay motionless at our feet while I held his hand and we left at the interval!! I've never seen him so happy as when we left the theatre!
Husband has declared the whole day a miserable failure and I was actually laughing at how ridiculous it all was! He kept saying "never again..."
Thanks everybody for your advice, it's very much appreciated. Thanks to you I coped really well with it all.

Try to discourage your husband from saying all the other children will be better behaved. My mother used to say this about me. Really dented my self confidence as a child. Ruined pretty much every day out before it started.