You would no believe how many children I get to meet a week. This week I have nine kids birthday parties to perform my magic shows at and also the Brisbane superhero characters are also out and about.
There are so many different categories of children. Here are just a few and how I work with them.
1. the cheeky monkeys:
These are my favourite types of children. It reminds me or my craziness and rebellion of not sticking to the norm – how many 30 year olds do you know dress up in a fairy and pirate costume and head off to dance madly at kids birthday party songs!!
I really enjoy this type as they are the type that if you give them and inch they will take a mile. They need to be told what is good and bad behaviour or they will run a-muck. But , they are sparky and funny and when handled with care and as much zest as they put out these children make birthday parties exciting and fun!
2. The shy ones
Ahhhh. What I love about shy children is the transition from clinging onto their mums leg as they enter a new building with lots of screaming children and slowly but surely end up, faces beaming, on their own, mum at the back, watching the show! I do feel sorry for the parents with shy children as they want to be able to just have some time on their own where their child feels happy alone. Most parents are very very good and come and sit down with their child to watch the birthday magic show together. Some parents need a little reminding that they are there for the children –and that we need to make the children enjoy themselves – but that’s what I’m there for hehe “ohhh I’m sure Jessica’s mummy would love to settle Jessica down by coming over and watching the show too”. It’s worth it to see the mum (20 mins later) back up with the parents and her child happily watching the show
3 the I LOVE YOU kids
Now this is adorable. You go into a house that you have never been to before. You hear a scream of delight. A little person comes running at you. “SuperSteph!” as if we were the best of friends that hadn’t seen eachother for ages. You get whisked away by the birthday child to see their bedroom, their cake, their parrot “greenie” ahhh.
There are more groups than these- however – it’s getting late - to be continued…
