[ SECRET POST #3063 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3063 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Forget how many five-year-olds actually have a concept of how pretty they are, how many five-year-olds have any kind of recognition of how well they can sing?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure I was five when I first started obsessing about being "fat", but yeeeah I'm not convinced about the singing bit.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was in nursery school the whole year group did some carol singing in front of the parents for Christmas. We went into a room individually with one of the nursery teachers and had to sing a bit of our favourite song, and she told us whether we were in Group A or Group B. If you were in Group A then during the performance you had to sing the songs, and if you were in Group B you were only allowed to mime/mouth the words.

Even 4 year old me was able to join the dots and work out that being placed in Group B meant I couldn't sing well.

[(Anonymous)]

That's really dumb. Especially with really young children and a large group -- no one will even notice the bad singers unless they are also obnoxiously loud and make up 90% of the group.

Though personally I find below the age of, hmm, eight or so, all children sound really awful. The pitch is super grating to my ears. It's still cute as hell to watch them try.

[(Anonymous)]

Similar thing for me anon. For my primary school's Christmas concert I always got stuck being an instrument player. Instrument players were tucked off to one side. The message I got was I wasn't pretty enough for a stage role. One year I asked to be an angel and got "angels don't have brown hair" as a response. I hated my hair for years after that.

I think OP's "evil" comment is a stretch but in my experience 5 is definitely old enough for adults to accidentally (or intentionally) give you messages about your worth.

[(Anonymous)]

what the hell? that's terrible. and come on, going by some descriptions, angels are, like, flaming wheels covered in eyeballs.

[ketita]

tbh I think pretty much everything could use more flaming wheels covered in eyeballs-type angels.

[(Anonymous)]

it really could!

[(Anonymous)]

Flaming wheels covered in eyeballs certainly would've made school holiday pageants more interesting...

[tabaqui]

WTF. What kind of dipshit tells a kid that? What kind of dipshit *believes* that strongly enough to say it out loud?

In my school (elementary) the singing teacher was a bit tone deaf (and very loud) and we all sang our little heads off. As it should be. Sheesh - it's supposed to be *fun*, not a fucking competition.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I would like to beat your teacher to death. Angels have whatever colour hair they feel like.

[(Anonymous)]

I think this teacher was a nazi.

[(Anonymous)]

That's just horrible. Even a "good" 5 year old singer sounds like a bag of cats anyway, so it was also a pointlessly horrible thing to do.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure that when I was five or six, I knew I could sing better than about two thirds of my classmates, who mostly were off pitch. I also remember being chided for singing too loudly and "showing off," and thinking "no, everybody else is mumbling."

[(Anonymous)]

I have babysat for a lot of children and I have yet to meet one who had that sort of recognition. They're all happy to sing along to songs they like at the top of their lungs.

[(Anonymous)]

Five would have been around the time I used to get speaking rather than singing parts in school plays etc. because I was that bad.

Admittedly I was completely oblivious and went right on singing for several years afterwards until I noticed for myself how horrible I was at it, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone who was less obtuse would pick up on those hints faster and take them to heart.

Don't ever remember having a concept of where I was on the pretty scale at that age though. I was one of those kids who started off cute and just got uglier as I went along though, so that comparison came later.

[raspberryrain]

Isn't singing a skill? No one sings perfectly at five years old. Anon must have had a decade or more to learn.

This is a very sad secret.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course it's a skill, but it's also a talent that some people have in greater measure than others, and you can't really develop it if it's not there. I've met a couple of people who've had years of instruction and still can't sing worth a damn. There was no early music group at my school, so in my junior year, I started one. Obviously we were not going to tell anybody "You can't join," so we had this one guy who had both a tin ear and an ugly voice despite a ton of lessons. And he was our only tenor.

[(Anonymous)]

I knew I could sing pretty well around that age, because they'd put me in the front of the group.

[(Anonymous)]

A friend of mine was about five when her parents told her not to worry that she couldn't sing like her older sister; she could take piano instead.