> > Diana's recent post has awakened my curiosity. > > Would any one else care to > > elaborate about positive experiences involving children and > techno?
Yeh my first son went to ear busting raves in the stomach and until he was 2 1/2, if we weren't careful, he would crawl to the front room and lay his head in the sub driver and fall alseep (exactly what my wife did at the parties cause she couldn't dance or risk a bump). No joke. He dented the center dome of the cone so many times doing that. He's 6 now and will bust the robot out anytime there's company (even to a beat box) and he takes the robotic isolation of his limbs very seriously when doing so. And to top it all off public school thinks he's slow because he couldn't identify his letters by name until he was 6, thing is, he couldn't tell you what an A looked like, but he knew every letter by sound. Like, point to one and he does the sound, do the sound and he'll point to it every time. He's now in a private school that has agreed to an alternative curriculum for his learning style ($). They think he's a genius...I do too. I can never get my records together for my Friday night gig cause my kids make me do the "under12 Friday night basement jam" when I get home. I bump beats and they just lose it for like an hour and a half. They party more like rock stars than ravers though. Tearing up couch cushions and throwing stuff. Flailing arms and all that. My kids love techno and they especially like dub on Saturday morning. They call mikey dread the "wobbly voice guy" because of the affected tremolo on his voice from "jumping master" and they ask for him regularly to accompany Saturday morning breakfast. I think I still have a "sleep in the speaker" pic, gotta fish that out. Good topic. Kamal K. Stoddard Turner Broadcasting Systems
