Getting Out of a Musical Rut
Okay, fine: I don’t really know what a Justin Beiber is either.
Okay, fine: I don’t really know what a Justin Beiber is either.
Introducing music to your child is key to building memories in life with your child. Here you’ll find some wonderful advice for bringing music into your home.
There are obviously a lot of variables that go into when a kid is old enough for his first “real” concert, but in my opinion, 11 or 12 years-old is ideal. Not only are the children probably fans of the artist and know his or her songs by this age, but they’re able to sit still during the boring wait times and they won’t get too exhausted when the hour gets late.
The songs we play over and over again make family life better and create our own soundtrack for our memories later.
Tomorrow afternoon you are to going stand in an auditorium with a thousand other kids your age. People will speak. Some parents will dab tears. Others will be elbowing their way to a prime position in order to take a photo with their zoom lens. I don’t need to tell you which group I will be in.
For me, the holiday music starts earlier and earlier each year. And, I don’t think it has anything to do with the arrival of Holiday catalogs before Halloween. It’s just me and my sappy self. Well, at least I’ve culled through my collection for you now and picked out the best.
We’re always on the hunt for music the whole family can enjoy. Here are some artists we recently discovered on the kids’ stage a very popular music festival.
We all know that nothing makes the miles go by faster than some soul-lifting music, so this year we’ve put together Alphamom’s Summer Road Trip Playlist.
Dad and daughter Jorge and Alexa Narvaez sing the song “Home” in this darling video that went insanely viral many years ago.
But that’s how I feel about my kids. I really don’t care if they like my music. They spent years listening to me play Aretha, Luther Vandross, The Rolling Stones, etc. and if they one day said, “Hey, Mom? Can you put on that one AC/DC song?”, that’d be great. But I certainly don’t expect it. Just like they don’t expect me to say, “Hey, kids? Can you put on that one Tyler, The Creator song?”
In April of 2001 I attended the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California, a few hours drive from where I was living in Los Angeles. Coachella is considered by some to be the greatest indie-rock festival in the country, and for me it was like…
I thought it would be an interesting first assignment to set my iPod to shuffle to see what I could say about the first ten songs that came up if only because the shuffle setting is the one function of any music player that I could do without.
Tween girls escape and HSM 3 rocks and rolls into 1st place.
It’s graduation season and if you’re planning a celebration we’ve compiled our favorite party jams picked especially for the graduate and friends.
Every day should be Earth Day not just April 22. This album applies jazz style music to familiar children’s songs with earth friendly lyrics.