No, I have no idea why my kids are all into Rock and Roll, Rap and Electronic music now. Damn kids these days.

  • booly@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Am I crazy or are the comments in this thread all about different ages? Well, I’ll defend the existence of children’s music.

    Children’s music is great for teaching young children (under the age of 2) the basics of music. A clear melody (often in C major), simple rhythm, some basic song structure, rhyming lyrics, and lots and lots of repetition gets children listening and singing at an age before they can form coherent sentences. These are skills they learn to encourage not just later composition and performance of music, but also basic human functions like speaking and listening.

    They’re doing it with their books, their TV shows, and their games, too. Developmentally appropriate material is important for learning that category of art or culture, and provides a basis to build on after that.

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    My kids have an amazingly eclectic taste in music because (I’m convinced anyways) we never did the kid music thing.

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    It’ll make them better adjusted. Playing music specifically for children shelters them and is going to make them alienated from their average peer.

    You just also have to teach them that in school (and later professional/work contexts) they keep their words clean for the puritans that walk amongst them.

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        Bluey in general is pretty great. I wish that kids TV had been this enjoyable the last time I spent time around a child

        Edit: the above is a lie, because whilst it may be for an older age bracket than Bluey, I wouldn’t have watched Phineas & Ferb if not for my significantly younger-than-me brother, and that was pretty fun

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    I could put on an Aerosmith record before I knew how to put my Disney VHS tapes in the VCR, of course then my older cousin brought over her Master of Puppets album and I fell in love with thrash. As she still likes to remind me, “I turned you into a metal head before you were out of diapers”. I still love the classics too BTW.

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    Well my 3 year old always asks for Kraftwerk and my 5 year old likes the pumpkins (not my first choice billys voice sounds like a mentally handicapped kitten being drowned in engine oil).

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    Your parents played kid music? Mine played The Pogues. Which I suppose isn’t exactly inappropriate for children.

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    Only time I had “kid” music must have been when I was, like, a toddler. Because I don’t remember a single time getting in my mom’s car without Boyz II Men or something playing. I didn’t even get to suggest music to play until I was in college 😅