to not play nursery rhyme CDs for ds in the car or at home?

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Most of my friends seem to do this.
I do not as I would quickly lose the will to live. Instead, we have Radio 2 or one of my Cds on in the background.

I am a mean and selfish person?

Dreadfully mean and selfish but I wish to God I'd never caved in and started playing the blasted things......

I have never ever played kids stuff in the car and we are way past nursery rhymes now ( they are 7 and 9)

Iota, a good decision there!

I have never played kiddy krap either.
Fuck, no way.
We listen to what I \like.

I couldn't stand 5 mins of kids stuff in the car. It's my car and I'll play what I like! However, I'm not adverse to a small dose of HSM every now and then . Does mean that they enjoy a wide range of music too.

YANBU! We had some for dsd when we used to take her on the long drive back to her mums. Except she wanted them on all the time and not just long journeys. They drove me up the flippin' wall and I swore never to play one in the car for dd (and haven't).

We don't have any and consequently don't have to listen to them ever. If it's my car, no music if it's dh's car, something loud and cool (no IDEA about music) so they much prefer dh's car and know the words to all sorts of songs I have never heard of.

I can't bear it, I'd want to kill myself if I had to listen to The Wheels on the bloody bus in the car.

I made a cd of songs from musicals as it was more bearable than nursery rhymes. The children 3 and 5 can sing lots including 'I could have danced all night' 'Mr Mistofolees' & 'feed the birds'

I drove to work today with the theme of Bob the builder, Thomas the Tank, and the GRuffalo until i realised I'd already dropped my dd's off at nursery 15 min ago, i can now have my radio on. IMO YANBU at all- but am very that you can listen to your own music

I usually have on the radio or my own CDs, but sometimes I cave and allow Hi5/ Lazytown/ Playhouse Disney- I need to be in a VERY good mood first, though!

But I've found even with my own CDs they start to wheedle for favourites. dd1 (4) wants "Pink Florrie" (aka Pink Floyd) and dd2(3) has definite gothic tendencies, always wanting "The Mithon" (aka THe Mission)on. And I rue the day they ever heard the Beastie Boys or Warron Zevron's "Werewolves of London" Can't wait until they get older and develop their own even worse tastes in music, so probably a good bet to disabuse them of the notion they can hear what they like now!!

Glad I'm not alone.
Ds sings the radio 2 jingle to himself. Tis very sweet.
He likes a bit of The Killers.

Lol at 'The Mithion'. Bloody good taste. Ds willl mosh to MCR given teh right mood.

On long journeys or if I don't feel like talking to them while I am driving then I have a job lot of roald dahl stories a friend bought us. They are great as I get to snigger along at the rude bits and DD1 has started repeating bits from them...

Boggis and Bunce and Bean,
One fat, one short , one lean
These horribole crooks,
so different in looks
Were nonetheless equally mean...

Oh sorry, YANBU though, I played nursery rhymes a few times and ended up launching teh cd into the rubbish thing at the tip...

Ah, now, stories I wouldn't mind so much. It would beat 'Oh, look darling, there's another sheep.'

Music from my ipod. DD 5 years also has a pink plastic walkman thing so if she wants backyardigans she can listen on that. She does however sing along....REALLY LOUDLY

Nursery rhyme CDs are the work of the devil. All that high pitched jingly jangly nonsense.

I has some old-fashioned childrens favourites for a while - my old man's a dustman, paddington etc. which weren't too bad. I prefer the spoken word though - Mr Men, Thomas the Tank Engine. Now we've moved onto Roald Dahl (lovely voice), Horrid Henry read by Miranda Richardson (with annoying sound effects).

They are read by stephen fry, hugh laurie and other famous people.
DD1 hasn't got the patience for matilda or the witches yet though...it's most frustrating.

On long journeys my kids get to listen to whatever dh has on - he as a large music collection in the car as he travels a lot for work.

I listen to the local radio mostly, as mainly do short journeys

Did the whole nursery ryhmes/ songs bit at playgroup and at home, but car was strictly our music.

DS's brought up on dire straights/ queen/ paul weller, and assorted music from 'greatest guitar hits' and 'top gear' albulms.

Although I can now claim my son's have great taste in music

Noooooo! We did stories too with dsd ... they were just as bad.

I play the "pub" game with dd (5) where you get points according to the name of the pub (ie 5 for a head, 1 for each limb etc).

god absolutely no

have never played nursery rhymes to my kids

rock, blues, soul, rap

but not nursery rhymes

what a waste of ears

I do have a BBC Hello Children everywhere CD which has great songs like "Right Said Fred" and "Jake the Peg" (Rolf Harris, bizarrely funny) alongside Peter Sellers

No.
Children's tapes are awful.
HSM is bad enough.
Dd2 is rather partial to Kimya Dawson and both girls now like Nirvana.
And Fratellis
And The Killers.

Neither of them like radio 4 though.

Twigglet - I have that Hello Children CD.
And another I bought because it had A Mouse lived in a windmill in old amsterdam... on it

We don't have any 'childrens' CDs at all. If we are all in the car then either theres nothing playing (constant stream of commentary from the back seat), Radio2/5Live, or our choice of music. If its just me and DS, then I might have a Terry Pratchett audio book on.