About this baby music group?

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I attend a weekly music group with my 1yo DD and we both enjoy it, for the most part. However, there are two things that bother me and not sure if IABU (and how to deal with the latter).

1. There is a big sign up saying 'We don't put instruments in our mouths!' to which the teacher makes occasional reference.

These are 3 month old plus babies. Of course they put the blimmin instruments in their mouths! Who cares?!

1. Each song has a toy or instrument to accompany it; these are taken out and put back over the course of the lesson. My DD gets really ticked off when her favourite toys get taken away. Why not just leave them all out in the middle? And (not an AIBU but) is there anything you can do about a 1 yo having a tantrum besides distracting and comforting?!

Is this rhythm time by any chance? I went along to that for a term or so and got too irritated with this officiousness of the women who ran it to go back.

I tried baby music once with dc1. I realised I'd paid £6 for ds to hear the same songs he heard at home while not being free to roam and wriggle.

We didn't go again but carried on with me singing silly songs and banging saucepans the whole time and started preschool music at 3 when ds was ready to benefit from it.

Our local monkey music is great. DD loves shaking and chomping on the maracas and banging the tambourines.

Under 1s do not learn to give back things because they went to Jo Jingles. They learn because some one shows them at a developmentally appropriate time. Sometimes I think MN is the craziest place on the planet.

another Children will learn it if taught it. Why is it crazy if a parent goes to jo jingles or similar and it forms part of the session?

My first didn't go to anything like that. She tidies up. But I take my second child.

Is this about jo jingles by any chance?