To want to take 6month DD to Baby Ballet?

[MillieMoosMummy]

My DD is actually 5 months but baby ballet starts at 6 months (anyone have any experience of this??)

My MIL basically told me I shouldn't, in front of all of DH's family. She thinks DD 'Does enough already!'

I felt like she was implying that DD isn't having a good time, or that I'm not thinking of her, but I swear she likes her actvities.

At swimming lessons she smiles and splashes, at Gymboree she actually laughs and giggles.

We also do Catapillar music and go to rhyme time at the library.

In four weeks we are starting 'Gymbabes' at Tumbletots.

I tried P & T groups but found them really cliquey.

I'm quite upset about MIL saying this and really enjoy DD's activities.

AIBU? Is she right?

Maybe because they were too busy mocking the stupid classes?

Why can I not read by the way?

You have not just been highlu offendive, you have been cruel. If I were you I would be totally asheamed of myself, yet instead of trying to make amends you used your latter posts to promote how great a parent you are.

Smug I can live with. Ignorant - ditto. Pisstaking about a persons disability? Sick.

Ssshh.... No one cares.

You're about 447 posts too late.

Get over it.

Sorry, can't. You disgust me.

Haha...

Love it.

Phew, for a moment there I thought I had misjudged you.

You have. That's what I love. How right I feel that I shouldn't have come back.

Because admitting you were deeply, deeply offensive, apologising, and getting the thread back on track really wouldn't be the sensible option, and flouncing is?

whats the issue with surestart centres milly/millie?? i volunteer at one every week. is there a problem or are you being snobby? if you are then you are just as bad as the smug mummies claiming superiority because they do do classes.

Now I am cross.

I went to all that trouble to post and the OP is just bitching and backbiting like a kid at someone's valid point.

Sounds like you might need to pick up on some of those social skills your LO is supposed to be learning at these baby classes, OP.

Sungirltan - I dont have a problem with them, but again, I think a lot if the classes are more geared towards toddlers. I'm just trying to do what my DD enjoys.

Of - not if.

Working - you think I'm going to give a valid response to someone looking for a fight?

If anyone reads the whole thread, they will see that I commented on this 'dyslexia' issue once, and for the last time.

Your dd most enjoys being with you. She doesn't much care where that happens or "enjoy" one class more than another, unless she feels that you are happier and more at ease at one than another. It doesn't teach her anything. There is quite a lot of child development literature about the needs of young infants and "baby classes" are really not high up on the agenda.

Even with those which have an "outcome" e.g. baby sign, where children actually demonstrate some learning by doing signs etc, the benefit is very dubious. The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists issued a statement forbidding us from recommending it based on a review of evidence that says it doesn't really have any developmental benefit.

SureStart is only for the Lower Echelons innit.

Well, Millie, you could have ignored it. Or at least not engaged in silliness. Don't let that stop you from your retorts, though, and ignoring the efforts of posters who actually try to keep the thread on topic.

Interesting to call dyslexia a disability.

Can you claim disability living allowance for it?

It is recognised under the Disability Discrimination Act, pigstrotters. I work with students with severe dyslexia. It is undoubtedly disabling

It was more then once. And not sure why you have used quite marks round the word dyslexia?

Sorry - the was supposed to come earlier in the sentence: I am not disputing my students' level of disability!

Working - (sigh!) - I know she enjoys being with me... And I'm with her at the classes! I really have never seen her giggle more than under the parachute filled with bubbles at gymboree... I really do chose things because she seems to like them. I tried baby sensory and sing and sign but she didn't really respond. It's not about what they can teach her, it's more about how much she laughs!!

And regarding surestart - I've already responded - if you wanna start a whole new thing... Really???!

Forgive me for not reading all 20 pages.

BUT - I'm at home with a 2 and a half year old and an 8 month old and the poor baby does nothing but get dragged around her older sister's life/activities etc.

She has to fit in around her sister, dog walks, housework and I would just LOVE to spend more time with her rolling around on the floor, playing peekaboo and doing all the things I did with her sister.

If spending money on baby classes is what makes you feel like a better parent, then that's fine. BUt never in a million years could you convince me that that's what my DD2 needs!

thanks working - I was not aware of that.

So do people declare it when they apply for jobs as having a disability gives you protection under employment law?

And how does that work if you have to write fluently in a job?

I used to know someone at college with really bad dyslexia and she had to work very hard but still managed to get her degree.

'half of you are just pissed because I go to paid for activities rather than a surestart centre.'

snobbery/inverted snobbery - still snobbery!!

working9while5 - thansk for posting that about baby signing - my teacher of the deaf mother forabade me from going saying it was ludicrous - she was right then!

I have to say, I've snickered at baby signing too.

Only at my friend, who's toddler was the same age as mine and used to eulogise at how her daughter could sign this and sign that. And I'd think - but my daughter can say it and yours can't, and surely that's more usseful?!