Re: Kid friendly Rock n Roll songs
I can't lie about it. When I was a kid, I certainly didn't think my parents...okay, my Mother...was being fair about music. And maybe she wasn't. There was no music in our house other than what came out of my transistor radio for years and years and the only music Mother approved of was Church Hymns sang from the "Official" Hymnal <LOL>
What that meant was that I had to get pretty good at clandestine listening when at home. Later, when I started driving, I had to remember to put the radio back on the channel that carried the Cardinals Baseball Games!
To my credit, I never got caught listening to Blues stations at night when in bed with my head under the pillow with the Transistor held tightly to my ear and nothing but the 3' long telescoping antenna sticking out touching the window screen beside my bed.
Maybe that instilled in ME a paranoia about letting some people really know who I am and what I do. To this day I still hide things that I do from my Mother! You'd think I'd have grown out of that in 60 years <LOL>
But MY philosophy in raising my own kids and in my relationship with my grandson has been that MUSIC is what I want them to listen to....AND....get involved with as deeply as their inclination leads them! If it is Church Music, that's good. If it's "Itsy Bitsy Spider" or "Rock A Bye Baby", that's okay too. If it's good ole Rock or Blues (oh, how I wish I'd inspired Blues in my Kids!), that's okay also as long as it isn't teaching a 3-yr-old to spout off foul lyrics when attending a Church Service or embarrassing their parents and more importantly, learning to Curse or grow up thinking popping a cap in someone's posterior it the Socially Acceptable thing to do!
But that is NOT what this thread is about. It is about suggesting songs that can be given by someone who isn't making those character developing decisions about their own children, but rather trying to provided something that will not be perceived as detrimental by the parents of the children to whom the gift of music is being given.
To that end, I do apologize for hijacking the topic to rant and rave about Miles to me in whom the sun rises and sets! <smile>.
And Nancy, you are not being "judgmental". You are just trying to honor the true nature of the request being made.
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WOW--what's that saying, don't judge till you walked a mile in my shoes? All I can say is contact me in 15-20 years when you are raising your own children and let me know how it's going. 
Originally Posted by Prettymaid
