How do you make sure your kids behave at performances and shows?
how do you make sure younger kids behave at shows you go to like dance recitals, plays, concerts, etc.
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December 4th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
please do tell when you get the correct answer!!!..then i can bottle it and make a fortune…hahahaha
December 4th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
leave them home. obviously they hate it which makes you bad parent… sucks but true. you are forcing something on them they have made clear they detest… leave em home…
December 4th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I don’t take them places like that. I can’t even get them to behave at their own things!
December 4th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I take my near-three-year-old daughter to a lot of concerts and plays. I bring a lot of little bags of different snacks — some good and some pretty junky; the candy-like stuff comes out near the end…
But mostly, I don’t take her to anything she wouldn’t enjoy. If your kids don’t like the plays and concerts you’re going to, leave ’em with Grandma or something. If these are little productions their sibling is in or something I can see some value to occasional “You need to do this for your sister’s sake,” but in general, “Theatre is something lousy where you have to shut up and behave” is not a lesson I’d want to teach.
December 4th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
you tell them before the event that they must sit still and watch the performance, and only whispering is allowed because it will disrupt the performers and is rude, they should be able to understand by about 4. if they are too young to understand that, they are too young to really appreciate it so theres really no point in taking them.
December 4th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
you tell them too…and then tell them if they behave the whole performances you’ll all go out for milkshakes…
December 4th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
I count. My son knows when I get to 5 that we leave and he goes straight to bed. I taught him from a young age that if I get to 5 its not going to be good. Of course we never get to 5 because he’s scared what could happen.
December 4th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
WIth my daughter, I never take her to these things. They bore me more than her. But when her mother wants us to go, I hand her a bucket of banana chips and say “Go nuts”. I can’t really expect her to behave and feign interest in something she just doesn’t care about. But if she is quiet the whole time, then I’ll buy her ice cream on the way home. Hey, she sat through the whole thing quietly? She deserves a reward!
Eventually, after forcing herself to be quiet for Ice Cream, she started asking what was going on in some of the plays Liana dragged us to. I explain as much as I can, and now she likes a few of them.
But other than that, a child just doesn’t want to be there. It’s painful for them, and taking them is painful for you. I’d leave them at home really. Give a neighbour girl twenty bucks to watch them for the night. Chances are they’ll have more fun and be more behaved.