You know you're old and a parent when you find yourself screaming that every so often.

My son received his first Cd player for his bday sunday and he's in heaven.

Of course his favorite cd right now is the Kim Possible soundtrack( a Disney Channel tv show about a girl spy). And he keeps replaying the title track over and over. And Over.

He keeps BLASTING the cd. Oh how funny.

Time to go check into the old folks house I guess..

well it sounds like he WANTS to be on the right path--he just needs to be shown the right road.....take that crap out of his cd player and replace it with the beatles, the stones, and the who......post haste

Yeah, I've already "given" him a few albums to listen to instead. The Beatles, Wilco, Cheap Trick.

I'm workin on it. I'm working on it. But he keeps reverting back to his kids stuff.

Now he's listening to Kids Bop Gold. At least they cover some Beatles on this one. ha

When I was that age two of my favorite songs were "Up on Cripple Creek" and "Shotgun Willie".

My grandmother loves to tell everyone how when I was 3 I loved to sing along to Mama don't let you babies grow up to be Cowboys on my Fisher Price Record player.

Be glad that he's at least listening to music and it's not the shrieking din of some noisy toy that a relative gave him just to spite you.

I'm still guilty of this from time to time... not listening to kids' tunes but listening to the same song over and over.

I thought you said "music".

Nothings changed for me. Instead of my mother, my wife now tells me to turn it down. Hell, even my dog leaves the room.

Steve

edit:This is actually pretty funny. Uda will leave the room just as soon as she sees me fussing with the CD player.

I'd like to see a pre-teens NP thread on the board.

My nephew finally dropped his DMB and Phish phase. He came over to my house the other day and took about 40 cds to download on his laptop. Everything from VU to Stereolab, Brian Wilson to Wilco, NRPS to Dwight Yoakam and Freddie King to Dub. He promptly left for a year, half in Nepal the other in Africa. He's come along way since being an ankle biter.

Next June we shall see how those adventures panned out and what new music he may have picked up along the way.

my 8 yr. old cousin this past weekend: White Stripes new one, Green Day, and Jesse Mcartney..?? I asked if he was related to Paul Mcartney, and she just said DUHH, Paul is like 80...