Maggie's Christmas Concert

(I promise I'll try and not make this a sappy entry about how wonderful my daughter's 20 minute/5 song Christmas Concert was at school today. It was preschool after all, not a Boston Pops concert. To tell you the truth...if you've been to one of those things, you've been to them all!!! Today was particularly amusing, though, in the life and personality that is still forming in my little 4 (almost 5) year old.

She has been telling me that she doesn't care for the song "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" recently but I thought it was just a casual opinion she was expressing. I asked her this morning if she was ready to sing for us and her response was,

"Everything but 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas'. I'm not going to sing that one because I don't like it."

I told her that it's ok not to like it but she should still sing with her class.

Sure enough...the concert began and the opening song was..."We Wish You A Merry Christmas".

All 50 kids were smiling, waving, swaying and singing at the top of their lungs. Everyone but Maggie. There she was on the front row, in the very center...hands pressed by her sides and lips almost locked shut with a perturbed look on her face. Then, in song #4, something about Bethlehem, she decided that she didn't care for the 'swish swish' motion that she was asked to do. Check out the video for her lack of participation...(she's in the red dress in the center)



What can I say? The girl's choosy about her material. She exhibited her creative right to not to perform something that was beneath her. She did a great job in the rest of the concert, doing all of the motions and singing at the top of her lungs.

I don't know...do I discourage this rebel attitude or be so grateful that her sense of individuality will probably serve her well in the future when most kids are using the "everyone else is doing it" excuse. The girl marches to the beat of her own drum, that's for sure!!!