I put the music on my daughter's ipods...thank you very much...when they want more music, they come to me with their lists and i put it on for them...and, yes, they have some hannah montana and justin beiber and selena gomez and demi lavato and...awww, jeezuz, you get the picture...but they also have soundgarden (chris cornell) and neil young and john denver and jewel and the police and tristan prettyman and ani difranco and pink and bon jovi and bryan adams and indigo girls and...well...you get the picture...i like their musical tastes to be well rounded. after they grew out of the sesame street phase, i introduced them to "my" music and they kinda took to it...i "filter" the stuff for content before i put it on their mp3 players though...they're still pretty young for some of the racier stuff, and i also try to weed out the stuff with a bunch of cuss words...gotta be a little "parental"
my one daughter and i have been taking guitar lessons for almost two years now...she's gotten really good, and she has an amazing voice...she's played a couple of parties and a couple of open mike nights this summer and she was unbelievable...no nervousness or hesitation what-so-ever...and she's only 10. my other daughter has taken up the violin...she's only been taking lessons and playing since february and she's already got 20 or so songs/pieces/whatever-the-heck-you-call-them-when-it's-played-on-a-violin under her belt and she's learned to read music well enough that she brings home music/hymns from church and teaches herself how to play them...she's only 10 too.
do i sound a little proud?? LOL