As some of you know, a lot of the music that I listen to is not exactly kid friendly. For example, the Beastie Boys are not known for their wholesome lyrics. However, this doesn't stop me from listening to the kind of music that I like to listen to, but it does present a rather interesting conundrum when it comes to my kids. They're always, and I mean always around.
At home, this isn't a problem. I just plug myself into my iPod and they're none the wiser, but in the car, music proves to be a little more problematic. So, what's a girl to do? I've become very good friends with the volume knob. It helps to know the lyrics very well. When some explicit lyrics are coming up, you get your hand ready on the volume control and, when you get to the objectionable lyrics, you turn the volume completely off for the duration of the word/phrase that you need to blip out. Done correctly, this technique will help preserve the purity of your child's vocabulary until their friends (or, by sheer accident, you) lend a hand in mucking it up.
Having heard me talk about doing this and also being in the car with us to witness it, Sasha sent this to me. Thanks, dude. ("Dude"... mwaahahahaha!)
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I am a headphones on kind of guy at work, when someone comes up to my desk to talk, I usually unplug one ear to listen. Although the other day, the MP3 player was scrolling the title/artist of "Hooker with a Penis/Tool"...I think the conversation might have ended abruptly for a reason other than the answer I had just explained.
ReplyDeletefurious-
ReplyDeleteHee hee hee!
I'm sure that must have made the rounds at the watercooler, y'know, all hush-hush like. ;)
-velvet
I know that parental conundrum. My six-year-old became a very fluent reader a few months ago, and I had to take ANOTHER BULLSHIT NIGHT IN SUCK CITY off the bookshelf.
ReplyDeleteI can definitely relate. When my daughter was younger (she's 14 now) I always had my hand on the volume in the car. I specifically recall the song "Control" by Puddle of Mud. Just as they reached the line about "I love the way you smack my a$$" I would have something ready: "You know what I wanted to tell you..."
ReplyDeleteThat's so much better than the song that I heard a mom listening to with her kid in the parking lot of the grocery store. Although, I suppose there's nothing wrong with a kid in a car seat knowing the word pussy, right?
ReplyDeletejocelyn-
ReplyDeleteLOL! Ah, child literacy... boon or bane?
-velvet
tammie jean-
ReplyDeleteYup, you definitely know the drill!
I don't even try to think up things to say... I'm much too slow for that. ;)
-velvet
mist-
ReplyDeleteThey were talking about cats, right? ;)
-velvet
Funny!
ReplyDeleteI often wonder, though, which I am more afraid of subjecting my kids too...
NWA or Barney.
Chris-
ReplyDeleteLOL! I see your point. Then again, we're not your average suburbanites, either. When the younger was three, he liked to play air-guitar on a tennis raquet to Blink-182 and Green Day, but to this day still doesn't have any idea who Barney is. ;)
-velvet
lol..that guy could be me!
ReplyDeleteWhen we drive to my wife's parents house we always have the discussion on what kind of music is appropriate and Daddy's music isn't aparently.
I tried the turning down the volume thing but I get distracted and then I get "the look" from the wife.
Now I am subjected to the musical tastes of the Backyardigans on every road trip. It's a good thing I have my headphones....
terhune-
ReplyDelete"Backyardigans"... hee hee.
I don't know how you do it! I understand how headphones would come in very handy.
My kids don't listen to "kiddy music" mostly because I would tear my hair out if I had to listen to the stuff. I'd rather feed them a musical diet of Ella Fitzgerald or classical or even sanitized Green Day or Prodigy.
They're Misfits-In-Training. ;)
-velvet
That was awesome!!!!
ReplyDeletejay-
ReplyDeleteThere are some pretty funny people out there. ;)
-velvet