True Confessions #2: How many of you still crank up the radio in the car?

[elegantlion]

Simply curious. Obviously, since our dc's ears are delicate we shouldn't do that when they are in the car. When ds isn't with me, the volume goes up. Will anyone else confess to still doing that? :001_huh:

[Andie]

Simply curious. Obviously, since our dc's ears are delicate we shouldn't do that when they are in the car. When ds isn't with me, the volume goes up. Will anyone else confess to still doing that? :001_huh:

 

 

Oh, yes. Gosh, I do it with the kids in the car (not as loud as when they're gone, but still).

 

You have to be careful with song selection, though, or you end up with a two year old that sings Rock & Roll All Nite at her great aunt's birthday party.

[Aunty Social]

Sure! Not too often - I've found that silence can be a precious, rare thing:D. But every so often.....AND I dance along! (which can backfire - I had the mom of one of my dd's friends come up to me and comment that I seemed to be having fun the other day:blush:)

[mommaduck]

I confess...I do it. Not as loud with the kids...but I cranked up when it's just me.

 

And I sing along...

[Laurel]

Yep, definitely when I'm alone. Not so much with the kids in the car, but there is a certain two year old who says every time "More up, weez." He likes to hear the music too.

[DB in NJ]

Oh *absolutely*!!!!! My 9 yo hates it, so we don't do it often with him in the car. My oldest likes different music than my dd likes, so that gets kinda interesting. But when there's junk or nasty-not-niceness on HER station, I go looking around and if I find a good one, we CRANK IT UP!!!! ;)

 

That's when Andrew pulls out his mp3 player and listens to Big & Rich :D

[OnTheBrink]

OH yeah. Some music just NEEDS to be blared loudly!

[Blossom'sGirl]

The only problem is that the bass in the MINI VAN is horrible. I try to stick to kid music when the littles are with me but dh doesn't. Now, when we get in the van, my 5yo bugs me to put on some "cool music" not the kid's stuff. I'm just not ready to let it go yet.

[Lisa at Home]

:glare:

 

Sometimes when I get in the car I wonder why the music is so loud!!! Then I remeber it was me, because the longer I'm in the car the more I seem to need to turn it up.

 

I wonder, what might the neighbors on the other side of the trees think!

 

~Lisa

[Remudamom]

Oh mercy, do I ever. Especially when "Walk this Way", "Woodstock" or any one of several ZZ Tops songs come on. Mortifies the children. They especially hate it when I have an air guitar attack.

 

If they complain about it being too loud I roll the windows down.

[sleepy]

I'm guilty of this, too. :blushing: In fact, dh had to give me a little talking to:001_rolleyes: a few weeks ago when he called me several times on my cell phone... music was so loud in the car that none of us heard it ringing. :tongue_smilie:

 

But hey, my 3yo knows almost all the lyrics on the new Weezer cd, so it ain't all bad. :001_smile:

[*anj*]

Absolutely!

Some songs require it!

 

Of course, when I was in high school my friend and I enjoyed blasting classical music and big band music. We genuinely enjoyed those types of music and we also loved the looks on the faces of passing adults when they realized we were blasting "Pennsylvania Six Five Thousand"!

[sleepy]

They especially hate it when I have an air guitar attack.

 

:lol::lol: Oh my, I just about died laughing imagining that! :lol::lol:

[jail warden]

Honestly? Not very often because I just can't believe how silent the world is without everyone asking "Mom this" and "Mom that". Silence IS golden! However, there are times when I'm in the mood just to 'jam'!

[Mama Lynx]

Oh, yes, much to my children's dismay. And, like Remudamom, I embarrass them with air guitar, air bass, air drums, and sometime air keyboarding. Some songs are just too dangerous for me to hear on the road ;-)

 

If i'm going to listen to my music, I use the fade function and fade the speakers all the way to the front, to give them some respite :)

[Remudamom]

Oh, yes, much to my children's dismay. And, like Remudamom, I embarrass them with air guitar, air bass, air drums, and sometime air keyboarding. Some songs are just too dangerous for me to hear on the road ;-)

 

If i'm going to listen to my music, I use the fade function and fade the speakers all the way to the front, to give them some respite :)

 

 

The trick is to sorta tip your left leg up to steady the steering wheel so that you can play your air instruments and still have a sec before you careen off the road.

[Remudamom]

I'm guilty of this, too. :blushing: In fact, dh had to give me a little talking to:001_rolleyes: a few weeks ago when he called me several times on my cell phone... music was so loud in the car that none of us heard it ringing. :tongue_smilie:

 

Sakes, that's an easy fix. You put it on vibrate and slide it under your leg. When it goes off you hit the radio button and compose your dignity before answering.

[Spy Car]

I'm as likely to listen to NPR in the car...but my (just turned) 4 year-old son loves what is now called "classic rock".

 

And we hear frequent exhortations from the rear car-seat to "TURN IT UP" :glare: :lol:

 

Bill (who's revisiting the songs of his youth)

[elegantlion]

Thankfully I am not alone. We only have one car and sometimes I forget to turn it down, dh doesn't like that.

 

I'm jamming with INXS right now. No car, but it's still blaring.

[WTMCassandra]

Once in a while! It's sure a toss-up between the bliss of rare silence and the need to jam. But only when I'm alone in the car.

[sdWTMer]

I do, but for...

 

talk radio! :D

[Jugglin'5]

The trick is to sorta tip your left leg up to steady the steering wheel so that you can play your air instruments and still have a sec before you careen off the road.

 

 

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Old Dominion Heather]

Yep. I don't worry about their ears too much either. Hey, I'm ok, right? RIGHT? (Speak up, I can't hear you!)

[KIN]

I sure crank it up, with the kids and without. :) I think I must make a funny picture, a 35 year old, overweight woman, with the windows down, the radio up in a mini-van!!!!

[Jugglin'5]

Embarrassing the kids with loud music is a fine art practiced by both parents in this family. It is especially fun to pull up in the church parking lot with Lynyrd Skynyrd blaring out the window.

[Suzanne in ABQ]

Absolutely! Especially if it's Boston playing More Than a Feeling! :D

[Dayle in Guatemala]

Our dc are consistently telling us that we need to turn it down in the car! (Not that it's that loud) They tease us about what we play loud:

 

The Monkees (please, don't ya just love Davy!)

Stryper (I still swoon over the yellow and black lycra outfits!:lol:)

The Phantom of the Opera (Swoon!)

 

and last but not least...

 

our wonderful classic 80's rock!:D

[3lilreds in NC]

Oh, yes. Gosh, I do it with the kids in the car (not as loud as when they're gone, but still).

 

You have to be careful with song selection, though, or you end up with a two year old that sings Rock & Roll All Nite at her great aunt's birthday party.

 

LOLOL!!!! Gotta love some good old fashioned KISS every now and then, eh?

 

I LOVE to crank the radio. I don't do it with the kids in the car, although I do find that the radio has to be up a little louder than I'd like for everyone to be able to hear. And then I can't hear them when they try to talk to me and it's very irritating. Maybe they just don't need to talk to me in the car. Hmmm.

 

I love to crank Bon Jovi right now especially. I have a couple of playlists on my iPod that are for Mom-only time, that need to be loud and I have to sing along. I just discovered that I have NO WINGER available in digital music so I'm going to have to drag out the cassettes! Eek!

 

I am a hair band girl at heart, so that's what I will crank if I have a chance. Sadly, I've been convicted not to listen to that stuff so much anymore, but every now and then I just NEED it. Like chocolate.

[sleepy]

Sakes, that's an easy fix. You put it on vibrate and slide it under your leg. When it goes off you hit the radio button and compose your dignity before answering.

 

Ah, but you're assuming I know how to put it on vibrate... :lol:

[3lilreds in NC]

Absolutely! Especially if it's Boston playing More Than a Feeling! :D

 

Boston! I love Boston! I *know* that's on my iPod - maybe that will be our lunchtime music for today.

[abbeyej]

Definitely, absolutely. And I sometimes even do it when they *are* in the car, just to drown out my ds when he hasn't figured out that now is the time to stop talking, roflol. ;)

[elegantlion]

Embarrassing the kids with loud music is a fine art practiced by both parents in this family. It is especially fun to pull up in the church parking lot with Lynyrd Skynyrd blaring out the window.

 

I pulled into the library parking lot last night. I guarantee I was the only blaring The Cars there.

[magistramom]

Ab-so-lutley! I did it on the way home from Target last night:) Especially loudly cranked in the ol' car would be loads of the 80s stuff...Cure, Ramones, REM, Robert Palmer, Police, B52s, Elvis Costello, Prince, JC Mellencamp, Duran Duran,...as well as some early Guns N Roses, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam...

 

Whoa. Thanks for the trip down memory lane there...

 

Two side notes:

DD11 asked me the other day, "How do you do that?" after I was able to sing along to two "new" songs on her iTunes made CD. (they were ABBA songs...gearing up for Mamma Mia!). I sooo wanted to put on a sly smile and lie...but I talked to her about the beauty of remakes.

 

DS8 asked me to download "Sweet Cherry Pie" so he could do his own version of breakdancing to it. I did the download - then sang along, not realizing that the one he was familiar with was the Guitar Hero cleaned up version. Whoops! I corrected that one real quick.

[Karenciavo]

I very rarely listen to music in the car, so no. My dh does.

[dragons in the flower bed]

Simply curious. Obviously, since our dc's ears are delicate we shouldn't do that when they are in the car. When ds isn't with me, the volume goes up. Will anyone else confess to still doing that? :001_huh:

 

 

I will confess to it. Like Andie, I also do it with the kids in the car. I figure, my dad did, and my ears are fine. We have an iPod adapter for the cassette player in my partner's minivan. We do listen to kid music, but it's good kid music:

, Moxy Fruvous, and such like this.

 

Heck, I do it at home, too. When we're cleaning, the music is blaring. I'm much less careful about what the kids hear when we're at home, because they're usually too distracted to play close attention to lyrics. In the car, in contrast, all they have to do is listen and daydream. (Also partly because if it weren't for the X-Ray Spex, I'd never get any cleaning done at all. We make a few allowances for Mama's motivation.)

[Karenciavo]

Ab-so-lutley! I did it on the way home from Target last night:)

 

You didn't go to the Target in Deptford, NJ did you? As I was waiting at a light by Target the car next to me was blasting Bohemian Rhapsody.

 

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye

So you think you can love me and leave me to die

Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

 

 

[crazycoffeechic]

Well yeah!! I crank it up everytime I get in the car.:D That is one of the joys of having teenagers, they like it just as loud or louder.

When I put on Avenged Sevenfold, Lynyrd Skynyrd, or Metallica, ds turns the volume up loud. When I put on Duran Duran, Aha, or Talking Heads, ds ducks down in his seat and tries to cut it down.:lol:

The only thing about having the music loud is the louder the music the faster I seem to go.;)

[catalinakel]

Only old Pink Floyd, or Led Zeppelin. Oh, and also Neil Young. But normally I listen to talk radio. And I don't usually have to crank that.:tongue_smilie:

[Jenny in Atl]

Well of course, but it's because I'm almost deaf from listening to it too loud in the first place. :biggrinjester:

[Tammyla]

Raising my hand over hear too. :iagree:

 

Simply curious. Obviously, since our dc's ears are delicate we shouldn't do that when they are in the car. When ds isn't with me, the volume goes up. Will anyone else confess to still doing that? :001_huh:

[elegantlion]

You didn't go to the Target in Deptford, NJ did you? As I was waiting at a light by Target the car next to me was blasting Bohemian Rhapsody.

 

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye

So you think you can love me and leave me to die

Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where is Astrid? We need her lighter.

[H.S. Burrow]

Oh *absolutely*!!!!! My 9 yo hates it, so we don't do it often with him in the car. My oldest likes different music than my dd likes, so that gets kinda interesting. But when there's junk or nasty-not-niceness on HER station, I go looking around and if I find a good one, we CRANK IT UP!!!! ;)

 

That's when Andrew pulls out his mp3 player and listens to Big & Rich :D

 

 

:lol:We have several favorites that are "crank up" CDs....two of which are Big & Rich :lol: We listen loudly on long drives and occasionally around town.

[LunaLee]

Wait a minute, you get time in the car by yourself?

 

Not only do I crank it up, I bump it. There are some days when only old school gangsta rap will do.

[crazycoffeechic]

Wait a minute, you get time in the car by yourself?

 

Not only do I crank it up, I bump it. There are some days when only old school gangsta rap will do.

There ya go!

[WTMindy]

Simply curious. Obviously, since our dc's ears are delicate we shouldn't do that when they are in the car. When ds isn't with me, the volume goes up. Will anyone else confess to still doing that? :001_huh:

 

Oh yah!!! And you should hear the volume of my mp3 player. :001_huh:

[dirty ethel rackham]

On days when I forget that I am an old fuddy duddy, I turn it up, do the car dance and sing along. My kids cover their ears and yell at me to stop embarrassing them!

[Krista in LA]

Oh we jam out whenever a good song comes on the radio. I've even been known to do it when the kids have had friends with us too. One of them even referred to our van as the "rockin' van" after one of these episodes. I was a bit embarrassed when his mom told me about it.

[Doran]

Of COURSE I do!! What I don't understand is why this warrants a confession. Is there an unwritten rule that says once you become a parent you are no longer allowed to appreciate music played at considerable volume? As if our father's, "Turn that crap down!" rings in our ears when the decibel level gets a little too great?

 

No way, man! I crank! Given that I drive an old hippy van in which the only working speakers are in the back where the kids sit, it is better that I do this when they are not in the car. By the time it's loud for me in the front, it's literally deafening in the back.

 

Funny, though, is when I turn on the ignition after having been rocking out all by myself and the volume is still up. The kids' eyes get big, they cover their ears as they grin and shout, "Woah, Mom -- doing some TUNES yesterday, or what?!" :lol:

[Jenny in Atl]

Where is Astrid? We need her lighter.

 

[LMA]

I do, but it's now the classical music station.