Send In The Clowns

Clown, performer, usually in a circus, who plays the fool, performs practical jokes, and does tricks to make people laugh. Other names for clowns include buffoon, jester, fool, comedian, conjurer, tumbler, harlequin, comic, and puppeteer. Although there are many types of clowns, each clown develops a “face”, meaning a performance personality. A clown’s face, once established, becomes the clown’s unique personal property.

But why does some child scared of the clowns? Based on my experience well not exactly mine but my kids, they are not fond of clowns. There’s this birthday party yesterday (July 17, Sunday) where Patrick and Patricia was invited. After going to church and eating lunch, the two were excited to go to the party but I told them to take a nap for a few hours because the party will start at 2:30 pm. Eager to go to the party, the two take a bathed, put on their clothes and hurried down the stairs and to the front gate. As we slowly enter the venue, the two suddenly took a stop at the entrance and seated at the bench until the clown calls for everybody to take a chow. Maybe the two was scared of the way the clowns look because like not what’s on the picture, the clowns in the party was not professionally good looking. But in fairness to the clowns, even if the two was outside, I could still see in them that they were entertained well enough to heard them laughing at their practical jokes. After eating, the clown announced that they will perform magical tricks, so Dad and I convinced the two that it would be fun. With the help of their cousins… finally the two agreed to seat down and watched them performed. The two was surprisingly fantastic, because they stayed for hours overwhelmed with the clowns practical jokes and tricks. As we go home, you’ll hear Patricia saying, “Mommy, hindi na ako takot sa clown, binigyan pa nga n’ya ako ng candy.” I hope they won’t be afraid of the clowns next time.