Children are stubborn creatures. Molding them into the clean, safe-driving, classical-music-loving model citizens you dream of them being is just not as simple as it should be. It takes creativity and an ability to be extremely entertaining for long periods of time. You should share your burden. Take Junior and Junior Junior to Mini Maestros: Jungle Jams, where the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet will teach children how horns, trumpets, trombones and tubas can sound like animals - while you sit in the back and wonder how the musical and zoological worlds all collided without your noticing.

MINI MAESTROS: JUNGLE JAMS, 2:30 p.m., Schneebeck Hall, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner, Tacoma, $7-$10, free for toddlers, 253.591.5890