18 Songs For Moms Who Want More Than Kidz Bop
If what we put into our ears matters, then what we put into our children’s ears matters even more. Here are 18 songs for you to romanticize the time you spend with your little ones while nurturing creativity and soothing big feelings—both theirs, and your own.
When we had our first baby, there was one thing my husband and I agreed that we wanted to avoid: children’s music. Don’t get me wrong, I love to sing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “The Wheels on the Bus” with my boys. But as musicians and songwriters, we didn’t want our kids growing up with the sort of soulless, overproduced corporate songs made specifically to hook their ears and endlessly annoy us. We also didn’t want to have to vet a whole new genre of music, knowing that much like kid’s shows, kid’s music produced in the last twenty years is more likely than not to include some sort of propagandistic messaging.