Tactless response, to be sure. But the oafs actually do have a point. More often than not, those “I’m a little teapot” performances are ghastly technically. Kids painfully off key, singing out of meter, picking their noses and the like. Yet the doting parents, grandparents, etc. will gush over them with, “You were wonderful” and such. Truthfully, it’s not doing the kids any good to tell them how wonderful they were when they were terrible. Be diplomatic about it, but give them constructive criticism.
Tactless response, to be sure. But the oafs actually do have a point. More often than not, those “I’m a little teapot” performances are ghastly technically. Kids painfully off key, singing out of meter, picking their noses and the like. Yet the doting parents, grandparents, etc. will gush over them with, “You were wonderful” and such. Truthfully, it’s not doing the kids any good to tell them how wonderful they were when they were terrible. Be diplomatic about it, but give them constructive criticism.