{"id":80,"date":"2012-03-03T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T04:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fathertime\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-03-03T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T04:45:36","slug":"music-for-the-front-and-back-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Music for the Front and Back Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Someone asked me the other day what kind of music I’m into. Not for the first time, I thought to myself, “Kids music.” And for the first time, I actually said out loud, “Kids music.”<\/p>\n

I don’t know what other families do, but when I’m driving around with my kids, we listen to kids music. Since my new car has a free trial of SiriusXM radio, I’ll sometimes play the “90s on 9” station, but the girls don’t have the same fondness for 90s music that I do (presumably since they didn’t exist back then), so we generally stick to kids music.<\/p>\n

Good kids music.<\/p>\n

Not Barney. Not Kidz Bop. Not even VeggieTales, even though I’m a big fan of Bob and Larry. (More 90s music!)<\/p>\n

No, we listen to “indie music for indie kids,” thanks to Bill, Ella, and Liam Childs and their Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child<\/em><\/a> radio show, available everywhere by podcast<\/a>. And if you’re about to go crazy listening to Raffi’s “Baby Beluga” for the millionth time, you should listen to Spare the Rock<\/em>, too.<\/p>\n

(No offense to Raffi. He’s great. But not on infinite repeat.)<\/p>\n

Bill Childs<\/a> (who has a day job as a law professor) and his two kids host and produce the show out of Northampton, Massachusetts, and it airs weekly on 93.9 The River<\/a>. They do a wonderful job of finding and sharing family-friendly music from talented singer-songwriters all over the country.<\/p>\n

For instance, check out Lunch Money<\/a> from my home state of South Carolina, singing “Tiny Dinosaurs.” (Skip to 0:24 for the start of the song.)<\/p>\n