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Ages 4-11 [Primary] How can you prevent young children from listening to adult music?
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I agree with you. Children are really curious, and I do not think you can stop them from listening to adult music. But how music they listen to will affect their lives depends on their character.
theresajane
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I think it would be impirssible since they are not living in a cell. What you can do is guide them in every way. Children are very curious as they say and with the availability of everything online and with gadgets in their reach, it would be imporssible to completely screen them out of these genres.
charmaine delenila
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You can't necessarily stop them from listening. Children nowadays are very curious on everything that spikes their interest. The more you control and tell them to avoid a certain thing, the more they tend to get close to it and try it. I think it will be more effective if you will talk to them and let them understand the situation.Proper guidance would suit best in this kind of things.
Caguioa747
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I dont think that a child listening to adult music will not bring any negative effect. as long as the lyrics is decent enough no bad words being said then that would be fine for me. For me, music is art.
Mora
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There is no such thing as prevent any more, we live in Societies that are so exposed to the extent that we have no hand over nothing any more, the only way to actually prevent a kid from doing something is to fully watch over them 24/7, which is not doable of course, at the same time I don't really thing a "bad song" is the thing to be afraid of, there is over 30 million porn web site in the internet and growing enormously as we speak that is the thing to protect our children from, and the only way to do so is to raise a kid in a way to be strong strong mentally and not easily driven by whims and desires.
What do you mean about adult music? do you mean an old music? or do you mean a green minded musics? If it is just an old music don't prevent the child from listening to it because I believe that there is nothing wrong with it. Old music is good for us and also for the children because it has a good message that we can apply to our life and it can also help us emotionally.
Andrijana15
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I don't understand what do you mean by 'adult music'? They don't listen to children songs anymore, but Beyonce? Or some songs which are vulgar or unappropriate for kids with words which are not for kids?
Either way, you can't prevent them from listening to it. And I don't think you should. Maybe it's just a phase, after that, they maybe start listening to Mozzart, after that it will be rock, pop, blues, I don't know.
However, your job there is not to choose which genre of music your children will listen to, but to explain to them why is that the way it is. Why there are bad words, songs with bad words, how the bad words make other people feel and so on. You need to help your children to get the best of their personality and become good people.
That way, they will listen to that kind of music, but they won't use that kind of words in their lives, if we're talking about cursing and unappropriate words.
After all, music is art, it's the way musicians express their feelings and visions of love, life, fantasy, lessons, but also anger, rage, and everything else possible or impossible in this life.
There is always both good and bad, but bad words in a song won't make people feel bad, because those are just for rhyme and singing, while if you say bad words to someone in real life you can hurt them, and make them feel bad, or sad. Teach them that. Good luck.
Either way, you can't prevent them from listening to it. And I don't think you should. Maybe it's just a phase, after that, they maybe start listening to Mozzart, after that it will be rock, pop, blues, I don't know.
However, your job there is not to choose which genre of music your children will listen to, but to explain to them why is that the way it is. Why there are bad words, songs with bad words, how the bad words make other people feel and so on. You need to help your children to get the best of their personality and become good people.
That way, they will listen to that kind of music, but they won't use that kind of words in their lives, if we're talking about cursing and unappropriate words.
After all, music is art, it's the way musicians express their feelings and visions of love, life, fantasy, lessons, but also anger, rage, and everything else possible or impossible in this life.
There is always both good and bad, but bad words in a song won't make people feel bad, because those are just for rhyme and singing, while if you say bad words to someone in real life you can hurt them, and make them feel bad, or sad. Teach them that. Good luck.
Moses Onyedikachukwu
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Day by day, as capitalism continues to bite deep into our society, the line that defines what content should or should not be consumed by minors, is becoming increasingly blurred.
An attempt to keep kids from consuming adult contents(like music) is something close to not allowing the see the world. Because these things are becoming an integral part of our world so that if you will see the world, you will be confronted with these things.
It is there on the radio, it is there on the net, on their playlists, even on the children TV series. I have the inkling that certain elements in the society wouldn't want there to be any difference between what's meant for kids, and what isn't.
Yet, because adult music(from my understanding, you're referring to the overtly pornified and monified genre of music) also have debilitating effects on even the grown ups —whose minds we would presume are strong— not to talk of kids, we indeed need to find a way to keep our kids from consuming these contents.
A first step is sound instruction. Kids are always receiving instructions every day of their lives; so that'd either come from you, or some other unreliable, ammoral, ignorant source.
When kids are instructed properly on what's worthwhile to be consumed, by the closest person in their lives —parents in this case— that instruction is taken as authority. By instructing them, we give them a compass with which they can navigate life. It forms the basis they'd use to judge other things.
Regardless, since we are all humans, instructions will not be enough.
Hense the need for action. Restricting what they can see on the TV(by whichever means you deem fit as a parent) and installing child control apps and features on their phones and PCs.
There is also the need for a parent to abstain from contents he/she doesn't want the kid to consume. As authority in their lives, what you consume as a parent can influence what they would want, their choice and likes.
An attempt to keep kids from consuming adult contents(like music) is something close to not allowing the see the world. Because these things are becoming an integral part of our world so that if you will see the world, you will be confronted with these things.
It is there on the radio, it is there on the net, on their playlists, even on the children TV series. I have the inkling that certain elements in the society wouldn't want there to be any difference between what's meant for kids, and what isn't.
Yet, because adult music(from my understanding, you're referring to the overtly pornified and monified genre of music) also have debilitating effects on even the grown ups —whose minds we would presume are strong— not to talk of kids, we indeed need to find a way to keep our kids from consuming these contents.
A first step is sound instruction. Kids are always receiving instructions every day of their lives; so that'd either come from you, or some other unreliable, ammoral, ignorant source.
When kids are instructed properly on what's worthwhile to be consumed, by the closest person in their lives —parents in this case— that instruction is taken as authority. By instructing them, we give them a compass with which they can navigate life. It forms the basis they'd use to judge other things.
Regardless, since we are all humans, instructions will not be enough.
Hense the need for action. Restricting what they can see on the TV(by whichever means you deem fit as a parent) and installing child control apps and features on their phones and PCs.
There is also the need for a parent to abstain from contents he/she doesn't want the kid to consume. As authority in their lives, what you consume as a parent can influence what they would want, their choice and likes.
I guess what you meant by "adult music" is inappropriate music, with inappropriate context, meaning, and words. Like everyone in the thread has said, it's difficult to totally prevent young children from listening to those kind of music which, somehow, is the mainstream music all around the world. However, by not letting your child have total freedom in gadgets and other medias, you can actually limit what your child watch and listen to.
I suggest you only show them appropriate music/kid songs as much as you can, which is a lot because young children obviously stay in your/teachers' watch most of the time. If they accidentally listen to inappropriate music and, with their amount of curiosity, ask, then do educate them. Parents' job is to direct their children, so do your best to limit, encourage, and educate.
I suggest you only show them appropriate music/kid songs as much as you can, which is a lot because young children obviously stay in your/teachers' watch most of the time. If they accidentally listen to inappropriate music and, with their amount of curiosity, ask, then do educate them. Parents' job is to direct their children, so do your best to limit, encourage, and educate.