Music for toddlers and parents?

Kenny Loggins Songs From The Wood was a huge favorite of my girls as toddlers. Then we hit them very young with Elton John, The Boss, Beatles, JT, Eagles, Croce, Bread, America and anything heavy on melody or a repeating chorus. do do do, and you don' mess aroun' with Jim" de de de...

Now, at 8 and 11 they are musicologists of a sort and favor Greg Brown Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, Mozart, Brahms and other more accessible classical. Kids pick up on music like riding a bike. Now, music is a focus, TV an afterthought and they are taking piano and Violin lessons. There is to substitute for an early start with music. I had the headphones on either side of my pregnant wife's growing stomach an hour or two a night several times a week from 6-9 months. Crazy? Maybe ;-)

Samuel -
Ahh, don't you mean Jethro Tull "Songs From the Wood"
I CANNOT picture Kenny Loggins performing that album! Ha!

Laurie Berkner

Although, my 5 year old is really into Ryan Adams as well. About a year or so ago, I was out driving with him and I popped in Ryan Adam's "Gold". I can hear him singing along to "New York, New York". I didn't even know he knew the song, nevertheless the words. It's amazing what kids pick up (and then what they don't).

But that shouldn’t really surprise me. I can't tell you a damn thing about Maxwell's equations (even though I took 4 or 5 classes about them during undergrad) but I can still rock every lyric off of Run-DMC's self-titled release.

“Two years ago, a friend of mine,
Asked me to say some MC rhymes…”

Mozart! I have read somewhere, that especially the piano sonatas of Mozart are very good for babies due its harmonics.