Anyone else been to their kid's nativity play yet?
Discussion
Sadly, I work away from my kids all week so I won't get to see my eldest son (5 yrs) in his nativity play. Maybe the wife can get a licence to video it for me, you know what I mean.
On a lighter note, when speaking to another Dad last weekend, he said he'd asked his daughter what part she was playing in the nativity play. She had explained that she was a one of the wise people (PC BS) and that her line was "I bring a gift of frankenstein". Out of the mouths of babes eh?
TeamD said:
Sadly, I work away from my kids all week so I won't get to see my eldest son (5 yrs) in his nativity play. Maybe the wife can get a licence to video it for me, you know what I mean.
On a lighter note, when speaking to another Dad last weekend, he said he'd asked his daughter what part she was playing in the nativity play. She had explained that she was a one of the wise people (PC BS) and that her line was "I bring a gift of frankenstein". Out of the mouths of babes eh?
Sorry to hear you can't make your kid's nativity, TeamD. That's a bummer. We had no problem videoing or photographing; it was just asked that people be sensible with the results, and not stick them on the www. Seems a shame that one has to be asked these things nowadays!
Wise people... WTF is the world coming too!!!
On our son's last school play, the headmistress stood up and announced very apologetically that she had recently learned that the copyright owners of the play they were about to perform explicitly forbade the play to be recorded under threat of legal action for copyright infringement!
Didn't stop some of the mums and dad's from videoing the play with their camcorders' lenses poking out of coats on laps etc.
(We didn't - I'd forgotten the camera, as usual. Ooops)
Didn't stop some of the mums and dad's from videoing the play with their camcorders' lenses poking out of coats on laps etc.
(We didn't - I'd forgotten the camera, as usual. Ooops)
Problem with videoing these things is that you watch them that evening or maybe the day after and then they get "archived" in a drawer somewhere. I suspect the next time we get to see these things is when they get married and we make some sort of embarrassing video collage of their lives!
I've been to Perscussion Concert (African Drums)(2 hours) , Brass Concert (2.5 Hours) , Snow white and 7 bastard dwarves (3 hours), Sleeping Beauty (10mins) and next week it is the nativity play for my youngest. Oh and apparently I'm going to church on the sunday before Christmas. Strange I thought I'd found God and he lives in my engine bay (General Motors 1.8e 8V finest GOD-like engine)
diddyman said:
Problem with videoing these things is that you watch them that evening or maybe the day after and then they get "archived" in a drawer somewhere. I suspect the next time we get to see these things is when they get married and we make some sort of embarrassing video collage of their lives!
As my parents live in France, we post a video regularly.
We have just had my daughter's play. It was great! 6 gurning 3 year old shepherds at the front. Superb!
Liszt said:
diddyman said:
Problem with videoing these things is that you watch them that evening or maybe the day after and then they get "archived" in a drawer somewhere. I suspect the next time we get to see these things is when they get married and we make some sort of embarrassing video collage of their lives!
As my parents live in France, we post a video regularly.
We have just had my daughter's play. It was great! 6 gurning 3 year old shepherds at the front. Superb!
I can understand that! Gurning sheep we did not have. Regular sheep, yes, some tigers (?) and lots of asses!
Sometimes schools just don't use common sense.
Christingle service.
Kids all go out to the front to receive
an orange into which several cocktail sticks loaded with dolly mixture / allsorts sweets. Stuck in the top of the orange a lighted candle.
Imagine 3 to 7 year old kids let loose in close proximity to sweets and lighted candles. FFS!!!
Miracle only one kids hair got singed.
Fortunately Miss FiF is too old for this now, but the memorable moment in the nativity video when she played Mary was when the whole cast was totally absorbed by one of the infant class barfing on the front row of the audience. Not a pretty sight.....
Christingle service.
Kids all go out to the front to receive
an orange into which several cocktail sticks loaded with dolly mixture / allsorts sweets. Stuck in the top of the orange a lighted candle.
Imagine 3 to 7 year old kids let loose in close proximity to sweets and lighted candles. FFS!!!
Miracle only one kids hair got singed.
Fortunately Miss FiF is too old for this now, but the memorable moment in the nativity video when she played Mary was when the whole cast was totally absorbed by one of the infant class barfing on the front row of the audience. Not a pretty sight.....
We had two owls and a rabbit, starring in 'The Little Christmas Tree'.
One of the owls didn't want to wear his wings, but the rabbit remembered her line and the dance routine that went with it.
No rules about photos or videos - so we have the opposite problem, which is that you can't see the play for all the parents standing up and filming it...
One of the owls didn't want to wear his wings, but the rabbit remembered her line and the dance routine that went with it.
No rules about photos or videos - so we have the opposite problem, which is that you can't see the play for all the parents standing up and filming it...
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