OT: preschoolers reactions to hearing a jazz record

by wcw on Mar 4, 2011 10:30 PM PST

My beautiful and talented wife was at a preschool open house today.

On the wall there was list of the children's reactions to hearing a jazz record.

Child 1: I do not like jazz. It was scary and made my ears hurt. Why was there no singing?

Child 2: There was no singing because they were sick.

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Child 3: There was no singing because they died.

Full disclosure: none of these is my child, but he has met Child 1.

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Kids have the strangest names nowadays.

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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Mar 4, 2011 10:33 PM PST reply actions

I blame MTV.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 4, 2011 10:43 PM PST up reply actions

In all fairness

I named my son Child 1.

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by RDreamer on Mar 4, 2011 11:21 PM PST up reply actions

Easier to keep track of them.

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by quincy0191 on Mar 5, 2011 12:31 PM PST up reply actions

If I have a daughter

Her name will be Girl.

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by RDreamer on Mar 5, 2011 1:01 PM PST up reply actions

Reminds me of the way Romans named their daughters.

"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"

by El Person on Mar 7, 2011 7:42 PM PST up reply actions

sad but true

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by Smoke on the Water on Mar 7, 2011 8:11 PM PST up reply actions

Only if the second daughter is Girltwo

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by Bhaakon on Mar 7, 2011 9:25 PM PST up reply actions

They did die, that’s true.

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by tk on Mar 4, 2011 11:08 PM PST reply actions

dizzy gillespie?

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by PiKAgiant on Mar 4, 2011 11:42 PM PST reply actions

Gillaspie. Conor “Dizzy” Gillaspie.

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by JRPhillips on Mar 5, 2011 8:13 AM PST up reply actions

His nickname after someone was watching him field his position*

*not a true story

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by Gobroks on Mar 6, 2011 12:14 AM PST up reply actions

Truer than you may think

Just a different sport.

by sarf_london_niner on Mar 6, 2011 1:07 PM PST up reply actions

I didn't even like music until I was a hughschool junior

And, to this day, only a very limited selection.

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by Bhaakon on Mar 5, 2011 12:17 AM PST reply actions

nobody cares

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by PiKAgiant on Mar 5, 2011 2:37 AM PST up reply actions

Don't be ridiculous.

It’s the internet, someone will be offended enough to care.

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by Bhaakon on Mar 5, 2011 3:52 AM PST up reply actions

I have found this to be true.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 5, 2011 8:23 AM PST up reply actions

And to call you a Nazi for it.

by Nicholas Miller on Mar 6, 2011 8:50 AM PST up reply actions

I not sure how it is you go about deciding what gets the nobody cares and what doesn’t get it.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 5, 2011 9:39 AM PST up reply actions

BAC

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by Giant among Angels on Mar 5, 2011 9:48 AM PST up reply actions

I wanted to go to hugh school but couldn't affordt it

I guess I should have applied for a hugh grant

ba doomp tsh!

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by Goofus on Mar 5, 2011 9:08 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs

polite applause

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by positiveuphemism on Mar 5, 2011 11:58 AM PST up reply actions

If you practice an instrument, you should be able to get a hugh jazz scholarship

go rowand

by lincypoo i wuv u on Mar 6, 2011 2:19 AM PST up reply actions

COME ON

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by lincypoo i wuv u on Mar 7, 2011 4:04 PM PST up reply actions

tough crowd

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 9, 2011 9:57 PM PST up reply actions

I would think it depends on the type of jazz, too. And they’d probably have equally funny responses to hearing an opera, sung in Eye-talian.

The students in my class this year are really into music. The “music helper” for the day gets to pick our accompanying background music for meals and worktime. Some of them can identify between violin, piano, guitar, harp and saxophone music. That is how I introduce it to them though, one instrument at a time, with very clear, easily discernible arrangements, rather bland, and mellow. Kenny G is what we listen to for sax, boring and saccharine perhaps, but easy for the kids to understand. I want what I expose them to be innocuous enough that I don’t lead them to believe that they hate it.

Oh and ahem… on another note…. Little Richard does a mean rendition of the Itsy Bitsy Spider.

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by Merope on Mar 5, 2011 7:42 AM PST reply actions

I guess ‘My Ding-a-ling’ isn’t appropriate….

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 5, 2011 8:25 AM PST up reply actions

Oh, wait, that’s Chuck Berry. NVM.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 5, 2011 8:25 AM PST up reply actions

That teacher in the South Bay got suspended for shaking a desk/table …I can only imagine what would happen to someone who taught the children that song.

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by Merope on Mar 5, 2011 8:29 AM PST up reply actions

My wife and I answer Mister Toddler’s questions as honestly as is politic. Today we had to explain what arrows were, and why characters in his book might be shot at with them. My Ding-A-Ling strikes me as pretty fluffy compared to longbows and chevauchée.

by wcw on Mar 5, 2011 3:14 PM PST up reply actions

How's that working out?

I’ve always thought it would be a better parenting technique to give your kids more credit than most people seem to. Being relatively young now, and even younger a few years ago, I was frequently frustrated with the way that society and parents seem to treat kids under 15. I mean, at 13, I was more politically informed than most adults, but they could vote. Hell, I was probably more responsible as well, and I feel like I would have been a lot happier if people would treat me the age I acted, instead of the age I was.

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by quincy0191 on Mar 5, 2011 4:31 PM PST up reply actions

On the other hand, letting 13-year-olds at large vote in elections is a terrible idea. You’d start seeing action stars in office and… and… oh god….

That said, it’s the prerogative of every single youth who ever lived to feel like the world wasn’t taking him or her seriously. And to some degree it’s because the world doesn’t. And, growing up, I’ve found that part of that is justified. I really thought I was well-informed, well-adjusted, and mature beyond my years when I was 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17… More than those things, I realize now, I was kind of a dumbass. A smart, clever, handsome dumbass, but still a half-developed person with a dozen different complexes about how fully developed I was.

Which also isn’t to say that treating young people like, well, young people is completely justified. It’s just a lot more justified than you typically realize when you’re, well, a young person. And justified may not mean good. Sometimes giving a youth credit for maturity and intelligence is exactly what they need to continue growing in both areas. Positive reinforcement is never a bad thing.

And, to use a phrase that does nothing but piss young people off, I say all of that from experience.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 6, 2011 10:27 AM PST up reply actions

Many of the things I thought were absolutely self-evident at 14 are, in fact, total horseshit.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 6, 2011 10:50 AM PST up reply actions

When I’m 40, it’s going to be interesting to look back and think about myself now.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 6, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions

By the time men are 25, they finally develop fully formed brains, so things shouldn’t be too embarrassing.

by wcw on Mar 6, 2011 12:36 PM PST up reply actions

50% of adults are interested enough to vote. A much lower percentage of 13 year olds would vote. I’d bet the majority of younger kids who actually would vote are those who are interested in the political process, and so are politically informed.

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by quincy0191 on Mar 6, 2011 12:34 PM PST up reply actions

I’d bet the majority of younger kids who actually would vote are those who are interested in the political process, and so are politically informed.

There are a LOT of assumptions going on there. First, that mostly the politically interested younger people would vote. Second, that non-politically interested younger people wouldn’t be coerced by their parents to vote. Third, than any younger person wouldn’t be coerced to vote a certain way. Fourth, that a younger person who is politically interested enough to vote on their own without coercion will be well enough informed and a skilled enough thinker to vote well.

Now, you can’t guarantee a number of these things with fully developed adults, either. But they are damn sure much, much, much, much, much bigger risks with people who are basically pre-adolescent.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 6, 2011 2:11 PM PST up reply actions

Would the votes of 13-year-olds be less wise, informed, and responsible than those of the masses who vote now, though? I doubt it. That’s a low bar.

by Evan on Mar 7, 2011 6:35 AM PST up reply actions

All of the masses you have just disparaged were once 13 and even bigger dumbasses than they are now.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 7, 2011 8:37 AM PST up reply actions

If we’re talking about the at-large population, yes, I think there is a higher percentage of the adult population that is capable of voting responsibly. It may be a low bar, which I acknowledge as early as my first comment in this discussion, but you’re talking about a population of people who, as a rule, have only just realized they are capable of independent thought.

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by howtheyscored on Mar 7, 2011 8:43 AM PST up reply actions

I’m not sure I’ve even exposed my kids to much jazz… How has THAT happened??? I’ve played in jazz bands for years and years now.

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by JRPhillips on Mar 5, 2011 8:14 AM PST reply actions

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by satyricrash on Mar 5, 2011 10:55 AM PST reply actions

But babies really do seem to like dubstep

Baby eating chili to dubstep

Its really hit or miss with my niece with jazz. She really likes Brubeck’s Take Five. I figured maybe she would like something like Watermelon man since its such a simple rhythmic song, but she really freaked out. She does seem to enjoy simple song structures – her favorites are things like Yellow Submarine.

She also really enjoys parts of the Garcia Grisman Not for kids only album, which is great. Freight Train and Jenny Jenkins are her two favorites.

by stab_master_arson on Mar 6, 2011 1:05 PM PST reply actions

the main thing is to play good quality music at home. Often. Whatever types you like, but hopefully a few different styles. As they get older they will hear crap from their friends, they might realize what good music sounds like.

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by foothillsfan on Mar 6, 2011 1:54 PM PST reply actions