Do you censor your kid's music

[Jenvenza]

Do I censor what my 2.5 year old daughter listens to? You bet I do. And I will do that until she is a teenager. We listen to all sorts of music in our home and our DD loves music. But if it has explicit language in it, then it is a no-go in our house for now. Most things she wont understand, but she learns new words everyday and there are certain words I would prefer her not to say. I am not conservative AT ALL, but it is never cute when a young child has a potty mouth, and it only makes the parents look bad.

 

[2girlsmom]

I don't think I censor anything necessarily, but I don't go out LOOKING to expose them to EVERYTHING. I am a child who was definitely censored, couldn't listen to any "secular" music, not allowed to watch any tv show where 1) there was violence or 2) sex or 3)things like Lavergne and Shirley, cause those guys apparently had a key to their apartment, or 3's company cause a guy lived with 2 women, etc. Now obviously I have since seen many of the things I was not allowed to be exposed to in childhood (by the way, also couldn't see "The Elephant Man" when it was assigned in school, Dad said just cause such things existed, didn't mean I needed to SEE them). However, I wasn't really DAMAGED or anything by it, either. Having said that, dh listens to classic rock or country, I listen to everything from classical to pop. For a while the girls' primary exposure to "pop" music was radio disney, but they have since gone off the air in our area. Meagan likes Selena, Demi, the soundtracks for HSM and Camp Rock, etc. Catie is a huge Taylor Swift fan, but likes many artists, especially fond of country artists. I don't tell them they can't listen to anyone, specifically, but obviously what they hear is mostly what we listen to.

Also, regarding books, I don't limit books either, but I do choose to read before them many of their books now, so that I can discuss any questions or things that confuse or trouble them.

 

[glitterkittyy]

I don't forbid my DD from listening to any music or reading any books.

Ditto for me. I do not censor anything.

 

[mandylo]

My parents never censored what I watched, read, or listened to. Except for the time my older brother wanted a 2 Live Crew cassette tape. We get in the car and pop it in the tape player and my mother was horrified. She threw it out of the window!

I don't censor what my 12yo listens to. We have had a few nice and open discussions about things she didn't understand. As for her reading goes, I read just about everything she reads so it's all good!

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

I don't censor, but I do express words of caution. You cannot unsee or unhear something. There are some images that are harmful to the psyche...