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If You Have a Kid but Are Not Keeping Up With Kid’s Music, You’re Doing It Wrong.

Kid’s music, at it’s best, is as engaging and fun as adult music but directly engages age appropriate subjects. As great as The Clash’s music is, pre-teens shouldn’t have to understand the politics and music of the late 70s and early 80s to really get the music on the trip to daycare/school/grandma’s house.

NPR’s list of favorite kids music from 2009 is up. Good stuff all, but I’m particularly fond of They Might Be Giant’s work in the genre.

For older stuff, you absolutely have to start with Raffi’s first two albums. Singable Songs for the Very Young and More Singable Songs are great works.

And, for what it’s worth, Elizabeth’s favorite for quite some time has been Laurie Berkner’s Whaddaya Think of That.