You WILL cry (Picture: Getty)

It’s time for the school nativity.

From tea towels on heads to weeping mums in the audience, here are 10 things all parents know about the school nativity.

1. You will be roped in to make costumes.  No matter how much effort you make, it will always be upstaged by another parent’s couture creation.

2. By the time the nativity comes around, you will be sick to death of hearing the songs which have been practiced at home for weeks!

3. There will be tears when your kid doesn’t get the part they wanted and end up being a wall or a camel’s bum.

Bit of tinsel and you’re away! (Picture: Getty)

4. The tiny chairs.  As you trundle into a packed school hall, you look in horror at the rows of child sized chairs you will be forced to sit on for the next hour.  Your legs will go numb.


5. You can’t help but smile at a class full of little kids singing and ‘acting’.  No matter how bad your day has been, the nativity is a real pick me up!

6. The ‘alternative’ Christmas play will confuse the heck out of you.  What? Why is Simon Cowell in this play?  Is that really a lion and an alien? Why is Elvis on stage?

7. One kid will always cry causing everyone’s heart to break.

8. One kid will think they are on X-Factor and annoy you, though you will have to smile through gritted teeth.

9. One kid always shouts their lines.  Loudly.  And then shouts the carols like they are a football chant.

10. You will cry. Pack the tissues!

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