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"A friend of mine brought her six-month old to a music &amp;quot;class&amp;quot; recently. (I put &amp;quot;class&amp;quot; in quotes because, really, how much old is a six-month-old learning there?) Guess how much it cost her?  Forty-five dollars. For 45 minutes. That&amp;#039;s a dollar a minute! Yikes!  I get that it&amp;#039;s good for babies to be social, but do they even notice each other at six months? Emmett, who just turned four months, certainly isn&amp;#039;t aware when there&amp;#039;s another baby in the room! And even if they notice that there are other babies around, they&amp;#039;re not actually going to interact, right? (Right?!)  Plus, when I play music for Emmett at home, he doesn&amp;#039;t really react to it\u2014although he does seem to like it when I sing to him. So the only reason I can think of to pay $45 for a 45-minute class is for me to spend time with some other moms. But can&amp;#039;t I just go to the park and do that for free?  Is Emmett missing out when I don&amp;#039;t bring him to music &amp;quot;classes&amp;quot;? (If there is some benefit, I&amp;#039;d consider them!) Or are they just an expensive social hour for moms?  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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