Tuesday, February 20, 2007
What do children listen to?
I am curious what parents let young children listen to on the radio. What kind of music do you think is appropriate for children ages 2-6 to listen to? I have recently encountered children that are only 2-4 years old singing popular pop songs. One of my 2 year old dancers was singing the song Fergilicious, the lines I could make out were "I make to boys go loco, I'm Fergilicious." She said she loves the song and she wants to listen to it more! I was shocked! Also, one of my 5 year old dancers was singing Justin Timberlake's "I'm Bringing Sexy Back." Is it just me, or are these children to young to be listening to these songs?
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I completely agree with you. I have two nephews and a niece. My niece is five and her parents don't let her listen to anything, or watch any movie that could possibly scare her. I also went to see the movie, The Departed about three months ago during a late showing and I remember when somebody was shot, I heard a young boy, probably no older than 10 laughing. I was shocked because the movie was not made for that young of children. When I walked out of the theater, I saw several young parents with their young children coming out of the same movie. When I was growing up, my mother would never let me watch a movie like that. Not only because it was a rated R movie, but because it is not approiate for me at that age. I would like to know what parents are teaching these children also and why they are starting them off at such a young age.
Omg! Is that the movie with Leonardo Dicaprio? That movie was hard for me to watch! How can children watch that?? It is rated R for a reason, I dont think parents should even be allowed to bring young children to those movies! My parents would never let me watch anything like that, I was not allowed to even watch the Simpsons, to this day I have never seen that show and have no respect for it, but it is so popular for all ages of people. I was talking to my boyfriend about this issue and he thinks that when young children hear dirty or inappropriate things on TV or in music it wont harm them because they dont know what it means and they interpret it a differnt way. I still dont agree with it. In my dance classes I see all the problem that the children have and I think the root of many of those problems are thier parents. Many parents these days dont discipline or set limits for thier children and it is really sad!
I worked at a daycare last year and the kids would always turn on pop/rap radio stations when we weren't looking. The girls would always sign those kinds of songs. But my nieces are hooked on High School Musical, at least that is better for little kids.
Kristen:
I think it is shocking that children in a daycare would know about rap and what stations it is on. Also, for them to switch the stations behind the teacher back shows they know that the staions are bad, in a way. For them to do that also displays lack of discipline and what thier parents let them do at home. The kids should not know the words to those songs at all. Even though they dont understand what they mean, they should not even be exposed to that at such a young age.
I think incorperating a radio and music into the classroom is an improtant technology to have. It should not be abused though by playing rap music. I have also noticed in my dance classes that the 3 and 4 year olds are booty dancing when we have a free dance song. This shows that they are watching music videos too. This dancing is too mature for a 3 year old. What do you think? Did any of the children in your day care dance like that? Do parents really think this is appropriate for thier children? What should we do as teachers?
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