Lindsay wrote: << Also, I have two kids, 4 and 6, and am thinking about music they should be exposed to. <SNIP> I'd love to expose them to some classical but am so ignorant of it myself I wouldn't know where to start. >> I think most of us were exposed to classical music as kids without knowing it at the time. I don't know if they still show cartoons like "Bugs Bunny" or "Tom and Jerry" (no, not Notaro :~), but that was a great source for me while growing up. Then when my elementary school music teacher would play something like "The William Tell Overture", I was already familiar with it. I have some friends who are exposing their 5 yr. old to Bach's music by playing it in the background while he plays with his toys or coloring books. It's difficult to sit a child down to listen to music, so play it when they are doing something fun. As for Joni's music, I would force them to wear headphones while they're sleeping and put on a different JM cd every night :~) Jimmy - who knows nothing about child psychology
