What is it about parents and children and music tastes? No
matter how hard you try, how hard you nurture your child and bring him or her
up with the right style of music on your car stereo, no matter how hard you try
to drum your style of music into them, they always chose a different style to
your own. (Okay, mostly – I know there will be a few of you out there who will
say, ‘Well, my Billy likes The Nolans, just like I do!’).
I am a rock fan and since my children were young I have
forced my style of music on them in the hope they will like it too, and they
did do! They raved over Rush, knew that Maiden weren’t just any old Iron and hailed
Helloween, but alas something seems to have changed over the last year and they
like rap music. How did this happen? I hate
rap! Okay, they don’t like hard core rap, but stuff like Example (no, I’d never
heard of him either).His picture is below right, yes he does look like he could be the leader of the Labour Party, or work at Morrisons. Both my daughter and son love it. The boy will be sat at
the lap top listening to it and the girl will be sat with her headphones on
listening to it. My rock doesn’t get a look in these days. 
I dreamed of taking them to see the likes of Rush, but these
dreams will not come true now, the boy’s Metal CD which I made for him a year
ago is now forgotten, gathering dust now…
So… why does this happen? Is it the ‘I
know better than you, Dad’ thing? It is them having their own minds..? Or do
they just like it? It is a conspiracy? What is the world record for how many
questions there are in a paragraph?
They say they still like rock… but I think they are just
humouring me.
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