To ask if the music you love has rubbed off on your own kids

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I'm on the sofa relaxing after a hard day of decorating and my 14 year old dd is in the kitchen baking with her music on. I can hear her singing word for word montell Jordan's get it on tonight and I'm feeling so proud right now 😁 both my daughters (other ones 17) mostly listen to 90/00s RnB,ub40, and even oldies like sam cook and Marvin Gaye, and I'm so glad that they was introduced to the best music ever made (imo) my son on the other hand wouldn't be caught dead listening to my music 😝

Anyone here that has kids that love their parents taste in music?

My 9 year old shares my love of Janelle Monae, White Stripes and some other stuff, but also I’m Faded - his choice

My 13 year old not sure need to ask he uses headphones

Yes - DS1 has Catholic tastes like us: Beatles, Bowie, Reggae, Beach Boys, Blondie, 80s, electronic, Motown. Plus chart stuff like Marshmello (he's 6!).

DS2 likes Baby Shark

My 14 year old is bang into Half Man Half Biscuit

My DSes (7 and 5) have been pogoing like mad to the Prodigy recently. DS1 likes George Ezra, Ed Sheeran type stuff, while DS2 loves Elton John (“I’m still staring” as he calls it 😂). Both like a bit of Guns n Roses.

Yes it totally has! My 6 and 8 year olds regularly ask for the Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Blondie, AC/DC, Calexico, Kings of Leon, the Kinks, Beatles and more in the car as well as other more obscure stuff like The Essex Green, Steve Mason (of the Beta Band) and John Grant. They’ve got great taste. They also like their own stuff too such as theme music to Star Wars and Jurassic Park as well as the damn Chipmunks singing Beyoncé lol.

What definitely helps kids to have an appreciation for music is general is giving them as much different experiences and getting them to realise there's no such thing as a bad song or genre / instrument.

I remember asking my kids what they thought of it I played certain keys and notes or what they imagined an instrument would look like depending on the sound – sort of like Peter and the Wolf if you will.

Kids of primary school sort of age in particular tend to associate certain music with whatever is considered cool or embarrassing. You mention classical music or a live orchestra to most kids that age and they are likely to go “Eurgh.. God how boring”

Ask them what their favourite film or video game is and then ask whether or not there's music they like it helps them make a difference association and start to drop the preconception that all classical music is crap and Beethoven / Mozart and that kind of thing.

Nothing prepared mine for their first video games live. They knew roughly that it was a concert and featured an orchestra with screens and game-play but to experience a full live orchestral arrangements plus the visuals and everything else just blew them away. Skyrim and Warcraft and Warhammer sounds so immense it's unreal.

You don't even need to be into gaming to love that stuff love the video game soundtracks are getting better and better. If VGL or movie themed orchestras ever tour in your neck of the woods I can't recommend it enough for you and the kids.

My daughter saw this premier in Poland a few years ago when they did the full suite for How to Train your Dragon which is brilliant.

If you want your kids to develop a musical interest just introduce them to it all by starting simple and with what they love i.e. films or video games and it'll all follow suit

I have three children - my eldest listens to mostly chart stuff in her bedroom, but she likes some of my music too. My youngest tends towards classic rock, but also absolutely adores Billy Talent. My 11 year old is into Rancid, Slipknot, Madness, Less Than Jake, The Wildhearts, RATM, Ramones - he’s eclectic and his taste in music definitely mirrors mine! He also seems to have a completely inexplicable fondness for 80s and 90s pop, which is bloody brilliant.

We’re a family of musicians and the two eldest are both learning to play drums, my 11yr old is learning guitar and bass. I love that they’re interested in music and very much have their own tastes!

I used to play ub40 to ds when I was pregnant hoping he'd like it when he was born lol,no sign of it happening yet though and hes 5 now! I grew up with my mum and dad listening to dire straits,Bob Dylan,Bruce Springsteen etc which I suppose I do still like as an adult,don't listen to it regularly though.

Yup, my kids have all picked up bits of my music tastes and have also found their own music. Downside is that I have to keep retrieving my vinyl from their rooms. Upside is that they introduce me to new music. Saw The Big Moon just to be the appropriate adult for ds2 and now love 'em. Anteros and Pale Waves came to me via him too. Losing my Joy Division and Clash records is a small price to pay.

I feel like I've really done my bit as a parent when I hear them listening to a range of stuff rather than just today's samey music 😩

My DD claimed all my old records when my dad moved house last year, as well as some of his. All revising has been done to a background of ABBA, Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Ultravox, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel. DS & younger DD prefer a bit of Madness. Have been known to do a few nutty boy moves in the Co-op when House of Fun came on

I love madness, mod and reggae music as th@t was what I was brought up on, my boy absolutley loves 90s songs. ABBA, pop, Bon Jodi he loves it. I think if they get the chance to listen they like it.

19yr DD asked for Stone Roses vinyl for Christmas. I am always surprised when she sings songs from my childhood and before and knows all of the words. She has very eclectic tastes from Motown to Bowie to the Jam and current stuff her fave being the 1975. I'm now picking up on her choices and adding them to my play lists now too . I think it's amazing.

I would cringe if my kids liked my music. I’m raising them to be individuals with minds of their own.

Eh? How do you stop them liking music you might be playing? Surely kids hear music from a wide variety of sources.....parents, friends, radio, school, activities, films, Tv etc. They choose what they like from all those sources.

I would say generally, no, sadly! DS1 loves dreadful electronic music and DS2 loves anything cheesy pop. But DS1 has started telling me about amazing songs he's found every now and then. I'll brace myself for something dreadful and it's turned out to be Led Zeppelin , Rolling Stones and Metallica. So maybe there's hope after all...

No, neither have got into my music. Dc1 isn’t that I to music. Dc2 likes listening to stuff, and generally finds stuff on the internet (and introduces us to it).

At first. She loved Iggy Pop. But then she developed her own taste and I learned from her.

For mine, its a mixture of infuences from different places people and eras. But they love pop music too. Today's music isn't all 'samey'. That's what old peo0le say! Every era has it's own great unique sound and one thing I cannot fathom is music snobs. I know parents who don't let their kids listen to current pop music and try and force their own 'superior' tastes on their kids.

Yep, my lot play guitar and they love playing Oasis, White Stripes etc, and are converting their mates too! Ds1 is at high school now so his own tastes are evolving but the younger ones like what we like.

Dd (7) is desperate to learn the Macarena so we spend a lot of time practising atm!

I grew up listening to Northern Soul and Motown, along with 80s rock. Still listen now if I fancy a nostalgia hour

But I mostly listen to country, folk and metal... Odd combo I know.

@Vulpine have you listened to rap and grime music it's very samey lol that's what they listen to. I don't think I'm "superior* and try to force my taste on them, it's just the music they've grown up listening too.

Both have always been quite into music because DH and I are, and both have a bit of a crossover of our two different tastes plus their own.

DS13 has a huge range of music he loves; Oasis, Elbow, Queen, Beatles, anything Motown, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, Bowie, AC/DC, Macklemore and Manic Street Preachers. Some has come from us but most is just stuff he's discovered.

DS8 loves everything but especially Kasabian and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

I'm sure the music we've exposed them to has influenced them but when I see them loving so many different artists it makes me super chuffed because music has always been a huge part of my life. I hate music snobbery; my Mum was a demon for making me feel 'less' because I didn't like her stuff and I flatly refuse to do that to my own DC.

Sadly no1 son is like Dad, tone deaf. He likes loud smashy bands with no discernible melody.
No2 son was quite musical as a child and teen but has left it for other interests.
It happens. I carry on going to concerts and folky stuff with DH and friends.

No, DH and I listen to metal and rock music and my dc can’t stand it. I have some success with queen and Bowie but not much.
My 12yo dd is into current pop music, I was the same at her age, I didn’t find metal till I was 15 and it was love after that.