What Do Your Young Children Listen To?

I've never been big on kid's music. In fact the only "kid's" musician I could stomach was Raffi, and I enjoy his music because he doesn't just stick to kid sounding music. If that makes any sense!

I guess I always figured that if I was going to spend money on music, it had better be something I enjoyed. ;)

Raffi did do a lot to help me survive trips in cars with babies and toddlers though. I could put a Raffi CD in and the fussy baby in carseat in question would start singing.

Mostly my kids listen to whatever I'm listening to. And I have always wanted them to have a good knowledge of different genres of music, so sometimes we might listen to Classical, other times it's some shoegazer band like Radiohead, a troubadour like Johnny Cash or cheesy 80's songs (my 4 year old is a big fan of Cyndi Lauper).

My 2 year old's favorite is Coldplay (the girl has taste!). If she's in the mood for Coldplay and I put something else in, she'll yell: "Not that!". If I don't get it right right away, she yells "Not that! Not that!" until I figure it out. She comes by it honest. I listened to X & Y so much during my pregnancy, she was born humming it. (I swear Chris Martin's voice soothed my morning sickness. Sigh.)

My 6 year old is a big Beatles fan. The other day he was wearing his Beatles T shirt at a wedding shower and one of the women attending asked him: "Do you really like the Beatles, or are you just wearing that shirt?" I interceded and said: "He is a big fan and listens to them all the time."

(I'm sensitive to when my kids are being belitted and always step in.) So then she asks him: "What's your favorite Beatles song?".

His response? "Track 3." LOL! I guess he forgot the name of the song, but he meant Across The Universe.

My oldest is a typical preteen I guess because he likes stuff like Green Day and Social Distortion. I just ordered two Bob Dylan CDs so they can learn about that particular style and era of music.

The only thing they don't like is rap and reggae. I don't dig the former, but I do enjoy a good reggae jam myself, when I'm in the mood.

What do you and your kids listen to?