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When Did Your Kids Attend Their First Concert?
Keep on rocking it baby! After listening to music in the womb, kids love a toe-tapping beat. For many children, music classes are their first foray into an organized group activity, while others spend a portion of their day bopping to the tunes coming out of their mama's iPod.
Listen Up! It's a Back to School Playlist
A song can take one back to a place and time with just a few notes. For instance, take "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. Just three "umpa umpa umpas" will have toes tapping and heads bopping as the listener recalls their life as an acid jean wearing teenybopper.
T Is For Titillating Tunes
Don't bother knockin' if the nursery's a rockin'. Bronx Wentz and Zuma Rossdale may have music running through their veins, but any tot can have tune inspired lairs. Rock stars are known for wearing black so mamas can stick with an ebony and ivory themed room using a contrasting Moses basket and a zebra striped rug.
Do You Monitor the Music Your Tots Hear?
There's nothing better than a concert in the car and having kiddos doesn't change that, but many mamas switch the tunes they blast as tots grow old enough to understand the lyrics. Gwyneth Paltrow recently told Conan O'Brien that her lil sensitive thug Moses, 3, chills out to Jay-Z's "99 Problems," quickly adding that the song may not be all that appropriate. Do you turn the dial or let your youngsters rock and roll regardless of lyrics?
Musical Playlist For Family Road Trips and Car Rides
"Look kids! Big Ben, Parliament!" Get ready for those Vacationesque family road trips with a music compilation suited to please everyone in the car.
Ritmo Prenatal: Kid Friendly or Are You Kidding?
Pregnant women are barraged with ads for products that are designed to ease their pregnancy and make their babies smarter in utero. I can't tell you how many coupons and brochures I have received for nutritional snack bars and belly creams while expecting.
I had long read about the benefits of playing music for children before birth, but had limited it to the radio in my car and my iPod speaker system.
Tell Mommy: What Kind of Music Does Your Child Like?
While some moms meticulously plan out a labor and delivery playlist, most of us take a more fluid approach to music once our tots start developing their own musical tastes. When it comes to mainstream music, 56 percent of lilsugar readers just go with the flow and let their children listen to whatever is on the radio (so long as it's acceptable!).
What kind of music does your child, hop, bop and hum along to?
Texts and Tunes: Rockabye Baby Christmas Rock Classics
Have yourself a merry lil Christmas without putting "Jingle Bells" on heavy rotation on the stereo. For everyone who wants to fill their homes with a little joy for their bundle of joy this time of the year there is Rockabye Baby: Christmas Rock Classics ($11). I'm already a big fan of the Rockabye Baby series, so I knew the holiday album would fit nicely in our family music collection.
babysugar Diaries: Playlist for the Delivery Room
Lilsugar mamas came to my rescue! After much begging and pleading, you loyal lil readers provided me with some insightful tunes as I get ready for my next trip to the delivery room. I haven't begun to download the recommendations yet, but I am excited to get started.
babysugar Diaries: Help a Mama Out
Sugar mamas have once again proved to be a wealth of information! A while back, I asked you to suggest some songs for my delivery room experience. So far, I've got the following:
- "Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon
- "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys
- "Blackbird" by the Beatles
- "Lullabye" by the Dixie Chicks
- "Little Star" by Madonna
- "Another Sunny Day" and "If She Wants Me" by Belle and Sebastian
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