Do your teens listen to music while studying?

[Righttoo]

Just wondering as my ds like to listen to music on his phone/earphones. But I always used to find it distracting

Yes, and I'm baffled by it.

Yes.

So did I back in the dark ages when revising.

On my Sony Walkman! 🤣

Yes, don't understand how they can concentrate but they are doing well at school, so 🤷🏼‍♀️!

Yes.
As did I when I was a teen.
As I do now when wfh.

Not the radio, with the chatter, but background music, yes.

Yes, I do too. As long as it's just music, and music I've heard before, I don't find it distracting.

It's not like talking, or 'new' music I don't know?

My ds does.

I use to have the tv on in the background. If I'm at the computer at work I play music very quietly. It's not so much I listen to the music but rather some people don't work well in silence.

Ah ok. Thanks. Needed a sense check as wasn’t sure if I should insist he stops. Just at early stages of exam revision now and he is my eldest child

No current teens, but I used to revise to music and my now adult dd had her headphones on when doing homework and/or revising to cut out the distractions.

I don't think you should insist he stops. I do all my best work with music on, working from home.

61 a as bd I did and still do when wfh. 😊😊

We discourage it most of the time, but sometimes they do. They never use headphones while studying, but occasionally have a speaker on with music while they are writing up notes during term time.

When it comes to actual revision closer to exams then it’s a hard no. Their schools actively discourage it too as they have noted that there is absolute silence in exam halls and they really have to learn to be able to concentrate in silence.

Other than studying, music is on in our home almost constantly during waking hours, but we do want to encourage a different mindset while studying, and with both DH and DS so easily distracted, we do think the practice of working in silence is good for them.

I did but jazz not things with lyrics.

Strangely I can't do music as I find it too emotionally distracting but spoken word is okay so long as it's quite slow paced and not too interesting. (A TV documentary where they go over old ground quite a lot and intercut it with moody B-roll. Radio is too talky normally, unless I'm not interested in the subject in the slightest).

Sometimes I actively need the chatter in the background to focus my brain

I always did but studies show that you should not listen to music with lyrics.

Yes, but classical
Music with no words!

My three all listened to music All have done extremely well with GCSE'S and AA*s at A Level

I find it much easier to concentrate with music on in the background, but it has to be mainly instrumental. I still do it now when I need to focus at work, and my teen does the same.

I did, for all my A-levels. Did well enough to make Cambridge. Assuming they’re achieving I wouldn’t blink. If they’re struggling then it’s worth seeing if it’s causing a problem.

Yes, they've always got their headphones on and work better with it (they have had no difficulty with the silence in exam rooms either with excellent results in GCSE and A levels). We never have music on generally in the house but they are free to listen as much as they like with headphones. I work better with talk in the background but low so I am not properly listening, just the sound of voices). Can't work to music though. Again I have no difficulty with silence im exam rooms though, it's hard to explain but it's a different type of focus.

Doesn’t work for me but I know it works for a lot of people. I wouldn’t be laying down any rules about this as I think it could be counterproductive,

My very academic DD did and does. I encouraged by DSs to try it but they not keen. I used to when I was a teen and it deffo helped me.

I think the type of music matters. Helps with the retention of information.

I always did - I can't concentrate in "silence", it never is truly silent, there is always something out there which can be a distraction, music helped me focus. ( I did v well in exams!)

Yes. It becomes a background noise - it's not like listening to a podcast.

People work in different ways. I always listen to music on headphones when I'm working and really want to focus, it just helps somehow.
I find people talking or tv really distracting though

I always used to study with the TV on (something mindless and easy) and recently undertook an MBA and I did all my studying with The Office US in the background. I can't study in silence. Definitely don't make rules on this, some people's brains need the background noise to concentrate