Is it acceptable for adults to carry on a conversation while kids are performing?
Hi! Mom of two here. I’ve been to my share of community events where kids are singing or dancing or doing a short play, and EVERY TIME lately there has been a group of adults near me who talk loudly during the kids’ performance.
Yesterday I was watching the children’s choir from my son’s kindergarten and two women were just chatting the whole time.
Once, at a St. Martin’s event, kids were doing a play of the Saint, and I’m not religious so I don’t really care, but I was watching quietly because - it’s kids! On a stage! Being brave! Somebody’s son or daughter! (Not to mention I’m trying to set a good example for my own kids) and these two guys behind me were loudly talking about going to McDonald’s and I got so angry I turned and said, “Hallo Idioten, es ist kein Netflix, es gibt’s Kinder auf die Bühne,” and then I felt like and AH for calling them out.
But maybe they needed to be called out?
What do you think? Is it acceptable to carry on a conversation while standing in the crowd while kids are on stage?
(I held my tongue yesterday at the choir performance… any ideas for something I could say to not sound like an AH myself?)