大猪

Rey came back from school 2 days ago looking rather disappointed. He explained that his class is doing a short musical of the "3 little pigs" for the upcoming March performance. And he is sad because he is the 中猪. He wanted badly to be the 大猪 because the 大猪's house is the strongest and thus wouldn't be eaten up by the wolf. Now, let me make this clear. Although the story is on '3' little pigs, there will in fact be around 6 children playing the 小猪，中猪and大猪respectively. This is because if a child is given the most important role in a play, the other Japanese mothers will cry foul. Which is why there were 30 桃太郎 instead of 1, appearing from a peach in another kindergarten's play.
I tried giving all sorts of reasons like, "It has been decided by the teachers", "The 大猪is the smelliest", "中猪is not too big, not too small, just right, as in Goldilocks story", "If everyone wants to be the 大猪, there will be no story". But he was quite adamant. In the end, I told him to approach the teacher and tell her how he feels. I lectured him on the importance of fighting for one's chance when one grows up. Who knows, he might get a chance to change his role. You never know unless you have tried, right?

Guess what, he came back the next day and said that he is fine with playing 中猪because some good friends are with him. And, he is just as satisfied since his GF will be playing his favourite大猪role in his place. Sign, kids.