Music for toddlers and parents?

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.

"They Might Be Giants" has long been my son's favorite band - I loved them since I was in college - now they are making kids music discs in addition to "regular" stuff. Even before they were doing kids records they were doing quirky, funny "pseudo-educational" songs about things like palindromes, mammals, solar fusion, presidents, you name it...

Now that he's almost 8 he just wants to hear Van Halen and AC/DC... oh well...