Hellobee Boards

So yesterday, my mom was telling me that my son likes this song that has lyrics that go "the base, the base, the base."

My husband finds it on his phone and turns out the unedited version features sh*t several times (at least that's only what I heard from the other room). The radio version is edited, but still, I am not a fan and I've asked my mom to be a little more careful about the music in the car.

The problem is he repeats everything, so.....I don't want to be limiting, but at the same time, I want him to learn that there are other ways to express himself.

My husband and I basically listen to hard rock and hip hop so surely this will be a problem at some point

That said, I remember my mom letting us listen to Very Necessary when it came out and we're no worse for the wear

@Mrs. Lion: it's still one of me and my sister's favorite memories of childhood. She even let us roll the windows down and blast Shoop while driving through our town.

We also watched MTV that we weren't "supposed to" when we were little. It would be pretty hard shield kids from everything

I remember my parents getting in a fight about Madonna! How she was a bad role model and whatnot. (Said my mom!)

Anyway ever since my son started singing snippets of songs, I've gotten more careful. In the car, with songs I know, sometimes I will turn it down for a couple seconds if I'm on the ball. Or listen to safe music! My son is almost 4 and my daughter almost 2 and they definitely understand and repeat certain words. In that Pitbull song Fireball, my son always recognizes the word booty and says, "HE SAID BOOTY!" but he thinks it's funny and I know he doesn't have any notions about sexual booty-slapping so... that's a pretty tame song compared to many!

I think it all depends how verbal they are. Between 18 months and age 2 you're starting to take some risks.

I don't really ever plan to change the music I listen to all that much. I like variety so I generally listen to the radio. DH is big on downloading music to his phone and listening to it in his car. I joke with him that pretty soon he's going to need to buy the edited versions. I would just rather DS not be parroting explicit lyrics everywhere when he's like 4, lol.

Probably not going to. DS hears worse things on the playground every day than whatever music I listen to

@looch: If it's the song I'm thinking of, it's not a bad song at all. I play it for K to dance!

I probably wouldn't play hardcore rap or hip hop with a lot of fuzz words, but everything in moderation should be fine. We have friends who have taught their kids to just not sign along the bad words. A video of girls singing along to "It's Britney -----" particularly sticks out in my mind. They know better than to sing that word, but they love the song.

I don’t know; I guess I sort of already do in a way. I’m not so worried about the occasional swear word; but since having a little girl I’m a lot more conscious about demeaning lyrics and songs, and will change the station if a demeaning song comes on as I don’t want to listen to it myself. I don’t want her hearing stuff that’s nasty or demeaning to women, or discounts all women as hoes/bitches/etc.

Songs like David Guetta w/ Akon “sexy chick” drive.me.up.the.wall; but that could also be because they are just crappy, crappy music.

That said, we're not switching to kid stations. There is plenty of great music available that isn't obnoxious "kid stuff".