My little boy Tom has started to dance - well, if you can call it that. It's more bouncing up and down accompanied with a bit of arm waving and clapping, plus the occasional maniacal twirl.
He started with bobbing up and down to our nursery rhyme DVD, progressed to dancing along to CDs and - best yet - started dancing along to the rock 'n' roll music an elderly gentleman plays on his radio in a Mui Wo public square every day.
I'm keen to enrol Tom in some sort of music and dance class, so I approach Chu Sui-ming, a musician who teaches Dalcroze Eurhythmic music and movement lessons every Saturday in our local sports centre. The trouble is, her classes are for three-year-olds and above. My little groover is only 16 months old.
But within five minutes of our meeting, she's suggested running a baby class for us. Rock and roll, as they say! Except it's not. Chu uses classical music to encourage rhythm and movement because of its "long history, packed full of treasure".
"The body is a very special instrument to a human being," says Chu. "Through listening to music and then responding to it, the body and brain are connected. We tend to concentrate on training the brain, especially in Hong Kong, and we forget the importance of the body in terms of human development. The language of music provides a lot of nutrition to our human expression."
Chu gives an example of how she teaches children the concept of time through long and short notes: she gets the children to walk like elephants for the long notes and mice for the short notes.