Moan warning....
I HATE monkey music.
LJ, I know EXACTLY what you mean about going to these things for the kids! Well I go to our local mother/baby group for me as well as we are finally fitting in, but monkey music I do solely for ds...
Most of the other mum's have boys ds's age, which is nice as there aren't any at the baby group, but they all blatantly know each other from somewhere, another group or antenatal perhaps. They smile and say hi but that's it, and their boys are ALWAYS one step ahead of ds. They all crawled before him, then talked before, now they're all walking... I swear I get sympathetic looks off them but they daren't say anything (and that may also be me being oversensitive but at least MY child is cute looking!)
Ds also doesn't cope well with things being taken off him, when we do songs with tambourines or maracas and it's time to give them back he HOWLS and SOBS and doesn't stop - especially as the time of the class coincides usually starting to get tired so towrads the end of the class he gets really miserable. Then they all give me these damn looks again.
ARGH. I've signed up for another term as I'm sure ds loves it, plus getting out of the house also good but god damn I hate these people!
Okay rant over.