My 2-year-old has never been particularly interested in music, unless you count his current interest in telling me to turn the radio OFF, Mommy, it’s TOO LOUD. (Note: it is NOT too loud, kid, I save the eardrum-bleeding stuff for when you’re not around.)

I do have a number of playlists on my iPod dedicated to kids’ tunes, though, just in case he stops being such a wet blanket about music sometime soon. Some of my favorites:
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The silver lining in my fairly long work commute is the fact that I have a solid chunk of time when it’s just me and my iPod, and I can listen to whatever I want at whatever volume I want, without worrying about destroying/sullying my son’s ears—or more annoyingly, having him tell me “No SINGING wight now, Mommy!”.

Of course, this isn’t time spent in a zenlike spa environment with restful water fountains burbling in the background and ivory-robed masseuses descending upon me with hot stones and various pleasant-smelling unguents; rather, I’m typically crawling along in a sea of red lights with fifteen thousand different hair-raising merge scenarios to contend with. But whatever, music soothes the savage beast! Even if the beast is a cross-Seattle rush hour battlezone.

Here’s a sampling what I’ve been listening to lately:

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