Nativity AIBU

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My ds is a cow in the nativity along with a lot of his friends,he’s very excited about it and I think they will be very cute.

My friend’s ds has a small speaking part but she has made a point of being really weird about the nativity.She told me she’d been online and researched all the parts and that the part her ds has is almost on the level of the King with the play. I’m fine with this but then she started making fun of my ds because he’s going to be a cow. My ds didn’t hear this but AIBU to think this is petty and weird behaviour?

Oh dear Lord!!!!! DD’s favourite part was as a non speaking shepherd. They all had to come on wearing sunglasses carrying a sheep. We didn’t tell the teacher but at the dress rehearsal she put sunglasses on the sheep too! That night the rest on the shepherds joined in.......
Suggest she watches Them Glint Street Nativity’ before next years play!!!!

Some people are bonkers. Teachers actually get parents complaining about their child not being cast as Mary or Joseph so this is hardly surprising.

I remember when a friends son was a cow. They had to make their own costumes and theirs was complete with rubber glove udders.

Nativity plays really do bring out the worst bat shot crazy elements in some parents. There was a thread yesterday about someone threatening to pull her daughter out of the play as she was cast as a donkey.

I think we need a word for it... nativityzilla is too clumsy...

Why did she research it that’s so weird! Hope her child doesn’t grow up with the same attitude towards others.

God that reminds me of that awesome film. Flint Street nativity where adult actors played kids. Does anyone remember that? It was so lovely.

She's being a dick OP, shame she's probably got not much else in life to be excited about. I feel for those people.

God that is weird. There is one mum a bit like that in my youngest's class. The nativity play was arranged so everyone has one or two lines and no part was bigger than the other. The kids got to choose what they wanted to be based on the costume they wanted. Her DD ended up as Mary and she went really OTT over it. Posted on Facebook daily about her DD's "starring role". Then on the day of the play posted on WhatsApp that she couldn't get there early but expected a front row seat because her child was the star.

One of mine was one "Cow number 2" which was (inexplicably) a major role and DC pretty much narrated the whole thing.
I didn't know this until I turned up expecting them to walk across the stage once or twice.
Other DC was once a Christmas tree which involved a complicated dance routine.
The whole thing is as batshit as your "friend"

That's horrible. I'm used to parents getting a tad crazy overinvested about who has what part and how large they are (I'm a performing arts teacher) but to be deliberately nasty to a small child about his part is appalling.

My 'favourite' parent was a dad who pulled his child from a production because her (main) part wasn't large enough.

The year group was divided into three groups and we put on three plays. This created about 16 lead roles and speaking parts for everyone rather than one play having 4 lead roles and a massive chorus. This dad counted his child's lines, borrowed a script from a parent of a child in a different play and sent me an email to say he didn't consider the part a lead role as it had 56 lines whereas the lead roles in one of the other plays had 79 lines. I was 'obviously not appreciating or supporting his child's talent and therefore his child would not be participating'.

Poor kid was my assistant and stage manager all through the rehearsal period. They even wanted to stay after school to be the prompt. The only person hurt by the experience was the child.

what a weirdo she is