Studies show that children who don’t learn to play a musical instrument often try to eat one. Save your offspring from an awkward doctor’s visit with today’s Groupon: for $35, you get a music-lesson package for children aged newborn to 4 years at Music Together (a $75 value). The package includes:

• Three sing-along sessions (a $60 value)
• One Family Favorites CD (a $15 value)<p>

Music Together cultivates a warm, welcoming community of children and their adult counterparts in 45-minute music classes, which introduce developing brains to grooveable tunes with an accommodating schedule. A friendly instructor trained in teaching, music, and impersonating tubas leads up to 12 Beatles-in-training through structured musical explorations, helping little ones to test out rhythms on drums, keep time on triangles, and belt out songs. Newborns to 4-year-olds co-mingle in the same classes, creating an open environment in which younger tykes mimic social skills and musical talents modeled by the older children. Parents and guardians participate in the classes, sitting cross-legged on the floor with their mellifluous youngster, socializing with other adults and intermittently showing off their yodeling skills.

After returning home, families can re-create the class’s melodious environment with the Family Favorites CD, chock-full of 19 tunes from Music Together’s curriculum and songs from all over the world in varying tonalities, meters, and dialects of Klingon.