Barrister's obnoxious thread full of smug parenting stories

[Martinus]

We're looking into music lessons for Timmy.

Hockey can wait till he's 5.

Don't stop at that. I'm pretty sure he will have at least one or two more hours left a day for other extracurricular activities you can make him join that he currently spends on this unproductive and useless activity other people call childhood.

[Barrister]

We're looking into music lessons for Timmy.

Hockey can wait till he's 5.

Don't stop at that. I'm pretty sure he will have at least one or two more hours left a day for other extracurricular activities you can make him join that he currently spends on this unproductive and useless activity other people call childhood.

At the age of two, he currently has zero organized activities.  I'm pretty sure he can handle music lessons and hockey while still having a full childhood.

[Ed Anger]

Polack childhood:

Hunt the Jew
Dig for potatoes!
Screwing in lighbulbs
Black bread

[Martinus]

We're looking into music lessons for Timmy.

Hockey can wait till he's 5.

Don't stop at that. I'm pretty sure he will have at least one or two more hours left a day for other extracurricular activities you can make him join that he currently spends on this unproductive and useless activity other people call childhood.

At the age of two, he currently has zero organized activities.  I'm pretty sure he can handle music lessons and hockey while still having a full childhood.

At the age of two, he has no business attending music classes. This is retarded and a sure way to make him hate music.

[derspiess]

Polack childhood:

Hunt the Jew
Dig for potatoes!
Screwing in lighbulbs
Black bread

And might I add to the list:  "Learn Russian"

[Ed Anger]

Polack childhood:

Hunt the Jew
Dig for potatoes!
Screwing in lighbulbs
Black bread

And might I add to the list:  "Learn Russian"

And German.

[Barrister]

At the age of two, he has no business attending music classes. This is retarded and a sure way to make him hate music.

Glad to know you're an expert on raising children.  Whatever would I do without you to tell me what to do martinus?   

Depending on when he might start music lessons for kids his age are very much targeted on simply enjoying and exploring music, and aren't about sitting down to practice scales or any such formality.

[DGuller]

At the age of two, he has no business attending music classes. This is retarded and a sure way to make him hate music.

No matter how smart Timmy is for his age, he's at his age.  My parents pushed piano lessons on me, so that I could play piano just like my sister, and this didn't work out well for anyone.  Music lessons are hard work, and you have to be able to appreciate what you're doing.  At least it taught me the value of saying "no" to my parents, which they may or may not have appreciated. 

[Malthus]

At the age of two, he has no business attending music classes. This is retarded and a sure way to make him hate music.

No matter how smart Timmy is for his age, he's at his age.  My parents pushed piano lessons on me, so that I could play piano just like my sister, and this didn't work out well for anyone.  Music lessons are hard work, and you have to be able to appreciate what you're doing.  At least it taught me the value of saying "no" to my parents, which they may or may not have appreciated. 

You guys have no clue what toddler music class is like. 

As BB has said, it ain't sitting at a piano bench learning scales (I hated that too, BTW).

Carl is doing that stuff now, and he's pretty good at it, but when he was a tot he went to "music class" for tots - and it was all about playing and singing. He enjoyed it, a lot. All the kids did.

It's like letting kids loose in a playroom with plastercene, construction paper and glitter glue and calling it "art class". They are not busy learning perspective and how to shade a sphere!

[Barrister]

I don't really care if he learns a damn thing.

He just seems to really enjoy music and singing, so I figure lets try and expose him to something beyond my tone-deaf attempts at song.

[Razgovory]

It's nice to see that the Canadian crowd has the wit not to listen to Eastern Europeans.  It occurs to me Barrister is descended from Eastern Europeans and Malthus probably is, so maybe they are just further down the evolutionary track.

[Grey Fox]

They are descendents of the pre-communists immigrants, so they are not criminals.

[Ed Anger]

I just play alice in chains real loud in the car. 4 year olds singing along to rooster? Priceless.

[DGuller]

You guys have no clue what toddler music class is like. 

As BB has said, it ain't sitting at a piano bench learning scales (I hated that too, BTW).

Carl is doing that stuff now, and he's pretty good at it, but when he was a tot he went to "music class" for tots - and it was all about playing and singing. He enjoyed it, a lot. All the kids did.

It's like letting kids loose in a playroom with plastercene, construction paper and glitter glue and calling it "art class". They are not busy learning perspective and how to shade a sphere!

Ok, I stand corrected.

[Martinus]

It's nice to see that the Canadian crowd has the wit not to listen to Eastern Europeans.  It occurs to me Barrister is descended from Eastern Europeans and Malthus probably is, so maybe they are just further down the evolutionary track.

I think Barrister has a Polish-Ukrainian wife and Malthus a Ukrainian wife, so your argument sucks.