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If your kids aren't shouting "Oi, oi, oi, oi" to AC/DC's TNT, are you even a real father?

Do people actually play kids music to kids? I thought that stuff was exclusively used for background noise in YouTube kids Elsa impregnation videos.

I love how, almost without exception, every parent of a single-digit-age kid's so proud that their offspring enjoys the same music that they do. Things (generally) change DRASTICALLY shortly after they reach that second digit.

My little daughter got her own baby music, but she enjoys listening to the Temptations, Apollo Brown or Gojira with me. She knows Daddy doesn't play her shit.

My six year old niece on her first day of school after riding with my wife all afternoon the previous day.

My neck, my back
Lick my pu...

The teacher:

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My kids are well aware that the Wu is not to be fucked with.

But as ODB said, "Wu-Tang is for the children"

My heart was about to burst with pride when my kids asked to add Meshuggah to their playlist.

When my son was three, in the back seat of the used squad car I was driving at the time, Beastie Boys would come on: "LOUDER, DADDY!"

My daughter loves rage against the machine and jazz24. However ever since I showed her the Sound of Music (1965) to introduce the topic of fascism and Nazis to her, she's been listening to that nonstop. Its a great film with a great soundtrack though so I can't complain too much. Still, slowly weaning her off. Maybe I should have let her watch the producers?

My offspring knows more than they should about underground hiphop, punk rock, and electronic music.

Babies love melodic death metal

Shit, if my kids are into k-pop, guess what we are bumping loud af on Saturday morning while doing chores?

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Car rides or not, we're vibin.

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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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).

I could put on an Aerosmith record before I knew how to leave and 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.

Took my 7 and 5 year olds to go see Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, and Rancid last summer. Taking them to a music festival this summer and probably Offspring in the fall. They listen to 80s and 90s music on their own, and I'll turn on the older rock when we get in the car.

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

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.

I had kid music in my car, while they were in booster seats. But as soon as the boosters went away, so did the kid music. Now my flesh listens to everything I listen to, and more.