# Should I go to daughter's Shakespeare play? (need answer fast :) ) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057 "2012-10-27T17:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/41 "2012-10-28T05:30:06Z")
You better go and you should have a dozen roses sent to the dressing room. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/42 "2012-10-28T09:04:24Z")
When your daughter was a baby, did you feed her? Did you change her diaper? Or did you only do it when you knew you’d have a great time? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/43 "2012-10-28T12:58:07Z")
Definitely go. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/44 "2012-10-28T14:01:10Z")
Pssst, Khadaji, check post #38. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/45 "2012-10-28T15:35:00Z")
At least you didn’t have to go to a post-production party at Chuck E. Cheese’s. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/46 "2012-10-28T15:40:18Z")
Dude, you really had to ask? You need to step up your being a Dad game. Being a Dad is one of the two or three most important and rewarding things you will do in your life. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/47 "2012-10-28T15:42:48Z")
I am glad you went. A personal question if you do not mind, you said “her mother” would go. I take it you are not still together. In that case even more important. BTW, which play was it what was her part? ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/48 "2012-10-28T16:24:22Z")
From the tone of some of the responses, it looks like people think I have never gone to any performances by my daughter, or I only go to ones that are Carnegie-Hall-level. In fact, ever since she was a toddler, I’ve been to all sorts of performances, and have enjoyed them. Funny story: A couple years ago, I was backing up some video camera tapes onto DVDs. They mostly contained footage of my daughter at various events and performances. So, I started playing some of the DVDs, to have a stroll down memory lane. One of the tapes was a Christmas party at my daughter’s pre-school where all the kids were singing Christmas songs. The kids were way off key, and the whole thing sounded quite chaotic. To me, it was adorable. My now-teenage daughter was there when I was playing this DVD and she said “Wow, parents sit through a lot of crap for their kids!”. To her, it sounded like unbearable cacophony, but to me, as I mentioned, it was adorable. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/49 "2012-10-28T18:34:34Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I was assuming he had enough of a relationship with his daughter to be able to ask this without a problem. I’ve never had a teenage daughter though, so perhaps it’s not reasonable to assume that. He might have the most wonderful, honest relationship in the world with her and the same point would still apply, perhaps even more so. It does not just apply to teenage daughters, either. It applies to any close loved ones. ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ Glad to hear you bit the bullet and did the right thing, **Polerius**. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/50 "2012-10-28T21:34:00Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > Of course you should go. It’s not about you being entertained, it’s about being there for her. How many events would we parents attend if we were looking only for our own gratification? > > Go. You might not find Broadway-worthy performances, but you can be proud of her, knowing the time and effort she has put into this and also just because she’s your daughter and you love her. And in years to come, you’ll never look back and say, “Damn, I wish I’d passed on that, it was such a waste.” Totally and absaloutley seconded . ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057/51 "2012-10-29T05:08:13Z")
So what play did they do? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-go-to-daughters-shakespeare-play-need-answer-fast/639057.md?page=2)