The nativity play has come to the end of its run | Sarah Ditum

The work of Christmas has become a pain for teachers, parents and children. It's time to let the Christmas story completely out of it

we almost there yet? It is in the final days before Christmas, and some of us are already loaded with seasonal fatigue, ready to exchange mulled wine and mince food cake freshly squeezed juices and granola - not aid a Kick New Year in good health, but because it is so boring Christmas. This is not the tinsel gets you, or homilies, or teeth of all, repetition. Same songs. Sweet himself. And if you're a parent, Natividad same age as is felt throughout the school.

I felt a bit uncomfortable to think that TBAs may be less exciting, so I asked the child more than he thought. (Massive coincidence: it was also my son's face, Nick Davies, an appropriate research!). It turned out he was also a bit tired of six years of participation in Bible pictures. "This is a test to Joseph, and they end up being a sheep," he said. "What's the point?"

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years, of course, get to the part of Joseph, his mother gives him a head scarf Lawrence of Arabia, and one of the other parents are wondering why you're dressed like a terrorist. The entertainment world is cruel. But there is certainly a limited number of plum roles in the Christmas story - and, in addition, children do not even have to mount the main character, which is inevitably an accessory plastic

is probably a good thing, if my son's class is a measure of respect that the child Jesus, "In the end, throw the baby Jesus to the crowd," he suggested, when asked how the revitalization of traditional birth attendants. "We did it in the first year. I never saw the baby Jesus again. "It's a way to show striking gift of God literally to all mankind, but in the end, that which corresponds to a tone of respectful adoration.

• is the problem with children to be one of the most important stories of the Christian faith are the children. They forget their lines. They lose their convenience. Angels excited vomit on stage. All this is very stressful for teachers, who in some way their choreography small loads in a show-parent friendly, and avoid any embarrassing questions about the vomit Gospels.

What I want awkward questions? Well, the name of another educational activity for preschool children are likely to end his four-year-old woman demanding to know if it is blank. And then there's the massacre of the innocents, the production of this year, euphemistically called "trick of Herod." That Herod. What a joker he was, with its slaughter of babies.

turn scripts No wonder schools jazzed musical versions. In recent years, I attended a Merry Christmas and Christmas Wiggly Factor (with Herod as a hard to treat, Frankie Cocozza). Maybe it's time to let the Christmas story of the production of the school and let children beat their socks with big tunes and parodies of the season, where everyone has a chance in the spotlight and promising young emotion is reduced to slip out of the line "beh. Baa baa baa. Baaaaa." Only one year, at least - long enough for all of us parents should remember how nice to see our children when they are disguised as sheep home. God bless you.

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