Do you know someone with children? Do you hate this person?

[underpants]

[CurtEastPoint]

1. omg I thought this was a douche nozzle

[beachbumbob]

2. I gave my sister's son a drum set when he was 6, that paid off for me for years

[underpants]

4. My stepfather threatened to by our daughter a drum set for years

He was just joking really

[Arkansas Granny]

6. In our family we always joked about buying the toddlers a Fisher Price popcorn popper.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Pure evil

Don’t forget to get a toy drum set for the sibling.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Could I also suggest a kazoo or a harmonica? Both make delightful gifts.

[zeusdogmom]

7. Can you imagine the elementary school music teacher?

Multiple rooms of 3rd or 4th graders learning to play this vile plastic "instrument". The actual wooden recorder doesn't sound as bad...

FYI - I taught elementary school music. And I did give my 5 year old grandson a wooden soprano recorder. And bongo drums. His mother (my daughter) said NO drum set!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. When I was in grade school we had a music class

in which we learned to play one of Satan's favorite instruments, the Flutophone. This is a wheezy plastic recorder that sounds bad by itself, but when played by a class of 25 nine-year-olds is truly terrifying. They are still used to teach kids to read music, and possibly to hate it as well.

[zeusdogmom]

9. For sure

Although I was subjected to the fluteophone (aka tonette) as a child and still went on to love and play clarinet. We learned to read music in the early grades by singing. Obviously our puny little rural community school had a great k-12 music program - obviously lead by the music teacher who made it great. And parents who support the program.

I had forgotten it was also called satan's favorite instrument 🤣

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Despite the Flutophone I ended up majoring in music in college

and I can sight-read even difficult vocal music, which may or may not have been the result of my early exposure to that thing. But I can still remember that mistuned wheezing...

[zeusdogmom]

11. They are truly awful

[womanofthehills]

12. I still remember flutophone numbers

Three, seven seven, six, five five, four, three, three, two, T , T. - we would sing it for practice to remember where to put our fingers.

[Major Nikon]

13. Better ideas