Assume the Perpendicular

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoy my writing.

To answer you question, I put on music for Eleanor and I to listen to throughout our day and I’ve done it since she was a newborn, but I have to be honest, she doesn’t show any signs of liking any song more than any other. I think she is still too young to experience those sort of preferences. She definitely has songs that she responds to, but those are always the ones that we sing to her ourselves, not ones coming from the stereo (for the record, she loves our rendition of “Three Little Kittens”).

That being said, my music listening philosophy has been to put on music that is kid friendly, but that I like to listen to myself, and that is fun to sing along to, since what she really responds to is my response to the music. A lot of it is music that I loved when I was young. Right now we listen to a playlist with a few of the Classic Disney Volumes albums (in my opinion you can never go wrong with Disney music!), The Sound of Music soundtrack, the album Sounds Like Fun that I wrote about here (and posted a download link), and a few others. Additionally the band They Might Be Giants have some fun educational children’s albums, including Here Come the 123s, Here Come the ABCs, NO!, and Here Comes Science. I’m also partial to The Wiggles, and their album Let’s Wiggle is on regular rotation in our house. 

I also like to play folk music, classical music, and selections of songs by great bands like The Beatles and The Beach Boys (ones that aren’t obviously about sex or drugs of course), which I consider to be early music education. :)

I don’t actually have a copy yet, but my sister raves about Jewel’s children album and played me a few tracks. They were all very pretty.

I’ll also link here to a post a wrote a few months ago with one of the playlists that I use that has the stuff already mentioned, plus selections from artists like Andrew Bird and Ella Fitzgerald.

I hope this helps!

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