Parents no longer allowed to sing at parent and baby groups

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I have no energy left to say how much this angers me

@EssentialHummus

It is sad OP - I loved rhyme time with DD in ye olde times and singing nonsensical rhymes while chucking my baby up and down like a rocket was a big part of that.

If I was one of the providers of this sort of thing I’d be seeing if at least some outdoor classes were possible, where presumably the risk is lower.

It’s quite difficult to make friends and facilitate contact with others when you’re all masked and sitting on different mats at shouting distance, not sure there’s a need for the disdain in some of the replies.

Many providers of baby music classes are putting the appropriate mitigations in order to allow singing. It will take them time, effort and money but it's their core business and attendees will have to adhere to the rules.

But a provider of a general parent and baby group (coffee, chat and play style) will not for the sake of a little sing song at the end. These groups are more likely to be volunteer led and run on donations.

Whoever Ned might be 🤷🏻‍♀️

Should have said me

I tried taking my son to a music class last summer, as his weekly nursery music class got cancelled. He's always LOVED music, anything with a beat.

In the class we had to sit on designated mats but he just got so excited and was running around dancing and squealing. I ended up chasing him round trying to catch him.

Too much effort, and so sad for the kids to be restrained from something they loved so I never went back. But that's how things are now.

I can understand your anger op but I haven't been able to go to a single group in a year and miss them terribly. I'd do anything to be in your position singing or not.

When my dc used to go to baby groups, we played musical instruments together with some lady playing the piano. I personally sourced all the little triangles, tambalins, bells, etc. when they didn't have many. Little children had a lot of fun including mine. Even you can't sing, you can still have musical fun with children.

Singing at baby groups is a kind of torture anyway surely?

I’m with you OP. It’s time to move forward.

@DDIJ

This has been highly informative. I never went to groups so I had no idea singing was involved. I hope there are groups for the tone deaf.

IME all the groups are for the tone deaf.

Not being able to sing has been the way for over a year now, it was the same over the summer in restaurants and we weren't allowed to sing happy birthday when we went out for a birthday meal!
Surely the fact that baby groups have found a way to come back safely is something to be happy about and look forward to, being able to get out and about with baby again (or in some cases, first time people have been able to since giving birth?!)
Singing can wait

Singing at baby groups is a kind of torture anyway surely?

Ha, very true, just think hurrah no more wind the bobbin up or whatever lol

@Downtown36

I’m with you OP. It’s time to move forward.

We are moving forward. Things are opening up, we are allowed to do more things and see more people just with litigations in place. We can't just take a "fuck it" approach and pretend everything is completely ok now.

*mitigations

Surely this is a blessing?!

Are baby groups starting now? I thought its just outdoor sports only?

@MsTSwift

Surely this is a blessing?!

That's what I was thinking it was having another toddlerhood of "twinkle twinkle little star" that meant we stopped at two!

Just stick greatest hits of wham on and let them go nuts!

@5lilducks

Are baby groups starting now? I thought its just outdoor sports only?

From 12th April.

@WovenFish I get that.

I’ve never been to a group where a parent/caregiver is bellowing at the top of their lungs. I feel that this restriction is unnecessary now taking into account vaccinations and numbers, so think it’s time to do away with it. Let parents and children escape for an hour, the risk is minimal.

It's shit, but it won't be forever and it's a lot better than groups not being held at all, in the meantime.

Someone i know is a student at a conservatoire. All teaching has been on line since last October. Then a couple of weeks ago they did a small group face to face session. 1 person tested positive for Covid the following day and 7 further cases of people at that session followed from that contact. I'd like to assume that as a Conservatoire they were following stricter guidance. All further face 2 face sessions have been cancelled for the foreseeable.
I think you are being very unreasonable to expect a random group of mums to be able to sing safely at a baby session if the professionals can't do it safely.

[quote Downtown36]@WovenFish I get that.

I’ve never been to a group where a parent/caregiver is bellowing at the top of their lungs. I feel that this restriction is unnecessary now taking into account vaccinations and numbers, so think it’s time to do away with it. Let parents and children escape for an hour, the risk is minimal.[/quote]
Parents and children can still get together and do lots of other stuff at these groups though. Perhaps in a couple of months singing will be added back into the mix. For now, presumably following scientific advice, it's been deemed not as safe as not singing. It's such a small concession. Nothing stopping parents singing to their children at home.

No neither can the students studying voice, Nor recording artists, opera singers, in fact any singing.
Many wood/ brass instruments too, actually affecting livelihoods.
Why are you angry?

@Kokeshi123

It's shit, but it won't be forever and it's a lot better than groups not being held at all, in the meantime.

Exactly.

There are LOADS of things we aren't allowed to do at the moment. Nobody can sing in group. Not just people at baby groups.