Can You Share Musical Tastes With Your Kids?
This is really difficult. I don't particularly want to impose my musical tastes on my kids, as I remembered how my musical tastes had been ridiculed when I was growing up and I believe that they are entitled to listen to whatever they want to listen to.
Both my daughter and my son have picked up songs by Pink Floyd, which is a group that I got into when they came out with Dark Side of the Moon.
My wife and I try to listen to what our kids listen to and some of it isn't as bad as we might have feared. I remember that one of the songs that was heavily played at the dances at the junior high school that my son used to go to was "1985" by Bowling for Soup. We identified with the heroine of the song that finds herself in middle age with high school aged children who don't get her. She wonders where her youthful fantasies disappeared to. I like the part in the song where she asks the question: "When did Motley Crue become classic rock?" My son has outgrown Bowling for Soup and has moved on to harder rock. Green Day, Nickelback, the Killers, etc.
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