Mobile Discos for School Discos

Its becoming a bit of a trend for mums and dads, who are not helping with the disco to stay while the party is going on. With 30 years disco party experience we would offer this advice. For a great school Disco party its not a good idea to let the parents stay and certainly not stay in the same hall as the party (with the exception for the very youngest of children.) There are several important reasons for this but mostly remember back to when you went to a kids disco, ask yourself, if mum or dad were there would you have enjoyed yourself as much.

A School Disco party is not a family disco or a party the perants can get involved in, the parents get bored. kids are usually quite sensitive to this, they can also become more self conscious because they know mum or dad has got an eye on them. Also imagine it from the kids perspective other peoples parents can look grumpy or the other kids might have big scary dads who just seem to stand there looking cross.

We have heard it said parents need to stay for insurance reasons, so now for a horror story and the real reason Pro Mobile Disco will always advice against allowing parents to stay at the disco party. In 1997 we were booked to perform at a School in North London (we will not mention the schools name because it would be unfair on the current staff and pupils). The school had a diverse multicultural pupil population and on the whole the kids got on with each other great. The parents on the other hand did not. We immediately noticed there were equal numbers of adults to kids and a definite tension in the air. The evening ended about an hour after the party started with a massive free for all punch up that lasted at least half an hour and involved almost everyone.The police had to come in force to restore order. We found out afterwards the situation was caused because one kid pushed over a second kid and the seconds kids dad told the first kid to behave. Unfortunately the first kids dad didn't take to kindly to this and from this spark of tension the parents took sides and the place erupted. Kids were crying hysterically and instead of having a fun and enjoyable party many were traumatized.

At other School Disco party's there has been less serious incidents and this can normally be expected, because in a party situation kids can get over excited and sometimes do silly things. However if a 6 foot 6 dad is in close attendance its impossible to tell the naughty kids to behave and sometimes kids can take advantage of this. Essentially any parent who wants to stay should be prepared to help with the organisations of the event. However if its an absolute must that the parents have to stay then organise a side room or a classroom that the parents can sit away from the party and not drain the the atmosphere.

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