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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
Like I mentioned, my own child quite quickly (by age 5 or 6) started to dislike children's songs. He felt the children's songs and TV shows he once enjoyed when he was 3 were embarrassingly childish. I can understand how a precocious child of age 5 might not like children's songs because they often paint an overly happy, one-sided, simplistic image of the world and usually don't prepare kids for the reality of it or match the reality they experience. Some kids may catch onto that earlier than others, and perhaps that is why they don't like children's songs much. Or maybe they just don't like the simplicity of the sound of many children's songs. Maybe these kids don't like the songs because they sound childish and the kids want to grow up and not feel like they are being confined to children's things.
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You hit the nail on the head, Erica, with the threshold being age 5-6; that’s when the “real school” of kindergarten and peer pressure comes into play. My children also started disliking children’s songs around that age. I get the feeling that my children were not as precocious as your son was at that age, though – so their progression with music was not so much the result of critical thinking as it was just going with the flow along with their peers. Around that stage, I also noticed that my kids started to “tease” me with rolling eyes whenever I sang those children’s songs. I had always made up these short impromptu songs that I would sing to them -- in place of talking a lot of the time -- in a half-singing half-talking voice. That was and is sort of my trademark with them! I do it to this day, and still get the rolling eyes! They refer to those songs as “Mom’s Greatest Hits”.
