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Last week, at Sam's first Kindermusik class, he spent the entire time trying to horde all of the toys. This concerned me. I've never liked grabby people, and it's impossible to convince a toddler that no, he can not have every single bell-on-a-stick, because the other children would like to play with them too.

At today's class, Sam did much better. He contented himself with snitching George's and my toys, and he even got into shaking the egg shaker along with the egg-shaking song.

At the beginning of every class, they sing the Hello Song, by greeting each child with different types of movements, for example, stomping their feet, or tapping the ground, or waving, etc. The teacher asked me what kind of sounds Sam responds to.

"Applause," I said. "He likes it when people clap for him."

So the class greeted Sam with applause. He made a good faith effort to appear modest.

Posted 16 October 2004 at 10:07 PM