Today it happened, one of those milestones I have been dreading as a parent, Little Miss put on her fairy dress and demanded we sit and watch as she put on a ’show’.

I have to be honest and say that for someone so insistent that we watch her show, it turned out to be quite a lacklustre performance, completely lacking in either pathos or production values.

The entire ’show’ consisted of watching a toddler dance around in a circle while beating out some kind of rhythm on a drum. The climax of which was reached when Little Miss threw her drum in the air and stood there arms raised to the heavens in triumph while awaiting for the enthusiastic and well deserved applause!

As I sat there I got a brief glimpse of my future which will consist of sitting through numerous performances both in the home and god forbid, in public. I will not only have to pretend that my enthusiasm for my own child’s talent is undeniable,  but I will also have to pretend to care about the performances of other’s toddlers.

I must say it saddened me to count the number of wasted evenings and weekends in the future, but I also think I just realised why my own father spent so much time at work….

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