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When I were a lad, we ad a thing called imagination, it were developed by playing with toys that was quiet and simple.
Now Christmas is past, how are you feeling about all those noise making toys? I tend to feel an urge to remove all the batteries.
By giving toys that are almost all noisy, are we not destroying a child’s ability to develop an imagination properly?
I’m sure the words to those nursery rhymes are wrong!
It isn't so much that they make noise at all, to me, but the volume of the noise from toys and even the read-along books that is excessive. I've found several strips of clear moving tape across the speaker works wonders to muffle - still can hear but at a reasonable volume.
One of my sons played trumpet and the other plays the drums. What does that say about me?
I think it's ok if you, as the parent, buy them. I have to admit that when the grandparents bought my 2 year old a harmonica for her birthday (those things are LOUD) I wondered if I'd offended them somehow for a couple of months afterward.
I think it's ok if you, as the parent, buy them. I have to admit that when the grandparents bought my 2 year old a harmonica for her birthday (those things are LOUD) I wondered if I'd offended them somehow for a couple of months afterward.
As a musician I am a little sensitive on this subject. I think that if a child shows an interest in music the parents should find a way to encourage the child. We initially bought our son a digital drum set with headphone but he quickly wanted an acoustic set. We set rules on when he can drum and we located the drum set in an extra room but I really think that an interest in music should be encouraged even if it's irritating to a parent.
All instuments are not created equal in the learning phase. When I was learning the violin, my mother would always sweetly suggest I practice when she had errands to run and wouldn't be home herself.
A friend gave my son a faux-boom box when he was one, it played Pip and Pop rap songs. It was the vilest thing I have ever heard, and of course it was Murphy's law that it was my son's favorite toy.
I was always under the impression that toys with noise were what grandparents gave grandchildren as some kind of evil "payback"....that and Candyland....
One of my sons played trumpet and the other plays the drums. What does that say about me?
There's a very obvious difference between introducing a musical instrument to a child and just buying a drum set or a horn for a very small child and letting them flail away and make nothing but noise.
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I have to admit that when the grandparents bought my 2 year old a harmonica for her birthday (those things are LOUD) I wondered if I'd offended them somehow for a couple of months afterward. 
