More Please, Daddy!

I started Village classes with my daughter Hallie when she was 3 months old. Call me crazy, but I had just returned to work and was struggling with “working mom guilt.” Then, I caught wind of a music class geared toward babies & parents. “The Village Escape,” as I called it, was my time to bond with Hallie and I loved every moment of it.

The only problem was that my husband did not have a “thing”, an activity to do with Hallie. He struggled to find a way to connect with her. A few months later, I heard that Studio3Music had an opening in the Saturday Sign & Sing class. I’ll never forget my husband’s response after the first class, “I really liked it. It’s a product class, and I’m all about results.”

He was able to connect with Hallie in the Sign & Sing (S&S) program because it was results geared. Each Saturday, he came home with a set of new signs he had learned. The S&S classes allowed him to communicate with his daughter in a fun, musical, informative, and educational manner.

We once heard that children are nurtured by their mothers and learn about the world from their fathers. This motto held true in our case. Dave was able to strengthen his communication bond, his emotional bond, and his creative bond while letting go and just having fun. To this day, he still recalls singing “Apples & Bananas,” and pulling Hallie in her pretend car. What he remembers most though, are those moments in class when he saw the smile on her face as she would giggle and sign “more.”

-posted by Miss Kim, who can’t wait to recreate those S&S moments with Baby #2, both the “results” and the bonding.