Post-Talent Show: AKA, the Day of a Million Melt-downs!
Gentle reader. If you are here, seeking some music therapy thoughts or wisdom, please know that this is not that kind of post. Well, maybe it is, but it's not going to be entirely focused on music or therapy, but on me. Yesterday was Talent Show day, and every Talent Show day comes with a special type of melt-down for my clients. Usually, my day is full of kids yelling at me because I don't have exactly what they envisioned (but didn't write on their sign-up forms) or panic-induced meltdowns that happen as soon as they see the entire school looking at them (we did have two of those). One kid got angry because I do not play Cardi B at all - not even the "clean" versions at school. I had the karaoke version for the student's dance, but that wasn't good enough for the student who wanted to sing but had not indicated that singing was what the talent was. I had the petty satisfaction of being able to show said student the filled out sign-up sheet, in the stude...