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Comment by BigTTYGothGF

1 day ago

The traditional approach is you give noisemaking toys to your niblings, not your own children.

We've been following this. Every nibling or even the offspring of friends received xylophones, tin whistles, hand drums etc.

As long as it's not battery powered, it was on our "approved" list.

They love us (the kids. The parents... not so much I guess).

We have our first one due in a couple of weeks, and I guess we'll prepare ourselves for retribution!

This sounds like a lesson I’m going to be learning the hard way

  • Good parenting is doing things the hard way.

    So why not go all in with a full set of acoustic drums?

    • Do you have $800? I'm trying to get my daughter a full set of acoustic drums (though odds are her brother will use them more even though he plays clarinet and she does percussion). I've seen full sets for as little as $30 - but it doesn't take much checking to realize they are not worth it even at that price. Good sets quickly cost more, but $800 is a good starting point for a set that isn't unusable.

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