Since Friday our household has been loud. Very, very loud. Who is making all the noise? Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you are probably one of a million other mamas reading this (how’d ya like how I assume millions read this blog–funny, eh?).
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Ziggy Marley is bringing music to the LITTLE people! He is releasing his first children’s album and has invited some family and pretty cool friends to join him on it. Jack Johnson, Laurie Berkner, Elizabeth Mitchell and Jamie Lee Curtis are only a few of the artists featured on the CD Family Time, in stores May 5th. In addition to some well known classics like “This Train” and “Hold Him Joe” Ziggy has written many original songs on this release which are endearing tributes to his family with many sage words of wisdom for kids.
This past weekend my six year old daughter and I had a very frustrating conversation about music. It went something like this…
Six year old – “Daddy, do you like Rock music?”
Out-Numbered – “Yes baby, I love Rock music.”
Six year old – “Cool. Me too. Do you like the Jonas Brothers?”
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One million kids. All changing from within. To some parents, this might sound like trouble. Drugs? Puberty? Rock and roll music? To others it might seem like just a natural part of growing up. But what if it was a change toward a self-reflective inner peace that not only brought about a more positive mindset but also improved health, creativity and performance in school?
In 1982 I bought my first electric guitar. I was twelve years old. It was a used black Memphis. I bought it from Danny Tramantozzi. It was an absolute piece of shit. That didn’t really matter though. I couldn’t really play anything at that point anyway. I bought it with the hope that I would someday be able to Rock. On that day I made a promise to myself. I made the ultimate commitment. I pledged my skinny ass, freckled face allegiance to Heavy Metal. I would only worship the Metal Gods. Hard Rock was to be my lover and I was a one woman kind of guy.
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A new Johns Hopkins study shows a dangerous link between low Vitamin D levels in teens and the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
After groundbreaking surgery that removed six of her vital organs, temporarily at least, seven year old Heather McNamara heads home to a family that couldn’t be happier.
The Girl Scouts don’t get this whole internet thingy and ban online cookie sales.
Today’s lesson on Sesame Street is subtraction and percentages as they cut 20% of its staff.
In return for not teleporting all of us into another dimension, the ten smartest kids in the country are named winners in the Intel Science Talent Search.
Meanwhile, after flopping at the box office, the Jonas Brothers head back to work with a summer tour.
Anne Heche has named her newborn son Atlas and nobody shrugged.
America’s favorite role models for unwed teenage parenting, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, decide to call off their engagement.
Last night Ben and I flipped on the radio while I made dinner. To my delight, Green Day was on…singing “Brain Stew.” It turns out we were tuned in to the cheesy 90s rock station I used to listen to in the, well, nineties. It seems they just stuck with that era of music.
So, we commenced jumping. We were dancing, singing and jumping around like fools. Happy as two larks. Ben ran upstairs and got his guitar so he could join in with the next hit, a little something from Alice in Chains. Nice. I miss you, Layne. Eventually, we found ourselves dancing to YIKES, Def Leppard and some band that was some unholy cross between Nickelback and Hinder. Er, maybe it was Hinder?
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When used together, “kids” and “free” are two words that are magic to the ears of every parent, especially these days. And when they apply to a full day of fun, it is not to be ignored lightly.
NY Comic Con, the annual convention for comic book fans and movie and television genre enthusiasts of all sorts, comes to town in early February and they have set aside a day to focus on their youngest fans under the banner of Kids Day. Best of all, children 12 years of age and under will be admitted free.
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