Bang, Bang, Bang

The Gift, Level 1

A drum set! You know, like they play in rock bands! For your kids!

And a good one at that, earning 4.4 out of 5 based on nearly 4,000 Amazon reviews.

The Gift, Level 2

The ability to de-mystify something that can seem, especially to a child, entirely mysterious.

Here’s my analogy, clunky though it may be: You ever decide you’re going to cook something wild and exciting, something that you think will push you to the brink of home cookery, leaving you teetering, ready to collapse into full-blown Bear-style tweezerful chefness? Only, then you look up a recipe and there are just six ingredients (four of which you already have in your pantry) combined in unexpected yet nonetheless simple ways?

Everything in the world is like that for a young kid.

That character from their favorite cartoon show and/or children’s book, who entertains them for hours? An amalgamation of ten or so lines and circles arranged just right. That move they watched a gymnast do during the Olympics? Okay, well, that was complicated. But it’s actually pretty easy to roll! And that song? The one they love more than anything and want to listen to over and over and over again? There’s no magic involved. It’s several instruments playing in unison. And now they can play one of those instruments. The drums!

The Gift, Level 3

Love. Pure, pure love.

At some point, your kid will grow up. Maybe they’ll be a drummer. Maybe not. But they will remember having a drum set. And they’ll likely mention it to their friends in college or at their first job or whatever. And their friends will say, “Seriously? Your parents bought you a thing literally designed to produce clamorous noise? And they gave it to you, a child? Thus sacrificing silence as they knew it for the foreseeable future?”

And your kid will be like, “Wow, I never thought of it like that. I guess my parents really do love me!”

Or you could give it to a niece or nephew. That’d be pretty funny!

Our point is: buy these drums and give them as a gift. To someone.