What's the matter with me

Its completely normal, its being human.

Bless her little cotton socks .

Absolutely hilarious shysal. I have got tears----with laughing.

Absolutely nothing wrong with you at all, I struggle to keep the tears from coming.

Recorder music in a church sets me off without fail.

Shysal that is hilarious!

Yes, I think you're SUPPOSED to cry!

To answer your question: Nothing! We all do it. Part of the ageing process, I think.

The first year that out gd came to live with us, her class room teacher gave her the part of Mary in the nativity.
My dd and I were in tears watching her singing her head off.
I used to be a TA so when I worked with year 1 and 2 we would be busy rehearsing for the play. I always shed a tear as soon as the choir started singing.

Minerva - We had a wonderful Joseph one year, when Mary told him she was expecting he ad libbed 'I'm deli'ed' with strong S London accent. Then a confident narrator popped up with 'Nine months la'er!'. Happy days, they must all be well into their 60s now, grandparents themselves.

I get tearful over DGC's nativity plays, but one year, when DD2 was away travelling and wouldn't be home for Christmas, I outdid myself by breaking down in tears in the Shopping Mall in Tunbridge Wells, when the carols started.

I was caught unawares in 1960. In my first job at a Camberwell primary school I took my junior class into the hall for a Christmas concert. The Reception class began to sing Away in a Manger and unexpectedly there were tears in my eyes. At the time I thought it was just me. It still gets me every time.
This year a Christmas card with a picture of robed choirboys walking to church pulled my heartstrings. I was remembering when my oldest grandson was in a church choir. The opening solo of Once in Royal David's City from King's College Chapel also moves me.

Me too......I am a Grandad as well..............

Actually I cry at the little girl on the advert who goes to the top of the tree- every time it is on!

Thank you Shysal, for leading me to this BRILLIANT video which I will keep looking at for ever.

It wouldn't be the same unless all the mums & grannies were crying!! I always have a good weep.
Mind you my son was a bit miffed when they did Joseph & Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat his last year at Primary school & I sobbed throughout! He was Herod ( AKA Elvis) & it was just fantastic. We still remind him of it regularly & he's 44 now!

Doesn't have to be children for me, anyone singing carols (even me) starts me off. What is it about carols ??

That video is brilliant. Last night I watched a film of my granddaughter singing at yesterday’s nativity, she sat watching with me and sang throughout, with such gusto and the occasional malapropism, I had a job not to laugh as well as cry. Such wonderful innocence.

It’s a granny thing. Take a look round and you will see many tears being shed or swallowed.

I cry now, but not when I was teaching infants. I was the one who had to teach the carols to the whole school, direct the choir and play the piano at the same time - I needed to be able to see the music!

I was afraid I would cry at my youngest grandson’s nativity, just as I always did at my own children’s Christmas concerts but no, it was just so funny that his mum and I could barely control our laughter. They had included every reception child so there were 5 Josephs and 4 Marys (one was off sick) but just one baby doll, 4 innkeepers though the only one with a speaking rôle was my grandson, two sets of wise men, numerous sheep and cattle and angels in fairy dresses. As always there was the child who stood up then couldn’t say a word and the one who couldn’t lift her head for nerves, the gabblers and the shouters and our little chap who added a little jiggle and then swallowed the second half of his sentence. It was wonderful and hilarious and I didn’t see any obvious tears.

Probably it helped that all the songs were sung to familiar nursery rhyme tunes. Traditional Carols always set me off.

Shysal, that was brilliant!

Not only children singing, but brass bands playing Christmas Carols too - I've been known to turn around and run when I hear them!

Me too !!! I've been at funerals where I actually didn't know the person but I cried my heart out because of the music

I was a headmistress in one of these schools your grandchildren go to and every year ... too many to count ... the school nativity always reduced me to tears...
parents waited for it ...
swear they opened a book on how long I’d last ...

I feel like crying too when I hear carols - I think it's some link with childhood happy memories.