over protection.

there are some things in life that i just don't understand. 

one of them being over protected children. 

now i'm not saying i'm the best at not over protecting my son
but he's ONE. i'm going to follow him around and  watch his every move.. 
but that's because he's still just a little bit fragile.
boy could eat dirt behind my back ...
okay okay he's done that before. 
not gonna lie.. 


but anyways..


maybe i'm crazy because i'm pretty much raising my kid how i was raised. 
i'm making him feel like he's just like mommy, he can watch what mommy watches, he can listen to what mommy  listens to, and he can hang out and listen to conversations that i have too. i mean.. i guess that's a bit different, but i don't say anything i don't think he should hear. 


my son is going on 19 months old in a few days, and he already loves katy perry, his favorite song is teenage dream, and he likes to dance to trey songz bottoms up and usher's OMG. well actually he hasn't heard those songs in a while, but he used to when he was nine months. but that's besides the point..


when i was 7 or 8 i was listening to things like spice girls, hanson, bsb, *nsync, britney spears, and christina aguleria. i didn't realize until maybe 4 years ago what i was actually singing. the boy bands weren't as bad as some of the songs i was listening to by christina, britney, or spice girls. but again... i didn't care, and my mom still let me listen to them. all i have to say is i turned out just fine. 


now, i know when i was like 2 or 3 i was repeating the words to a bob and tom show about lesbians in plaid pants.. and my mom stopped listening to that, because you know that's way out of line for me to say, but i soon stopped repeating that. 

when i watch tv, i watch a lot of the kids shows, because it's what i have always watched, i don't really watch many other shows, because i never know what i really will like.. i know that's sad isn't it? but when i do watch shows that are more for my age, i let noah watch them too. because i mean.. when i was his age, i was watching the freaking simpsons!! and to this day, that's still one of my favorite shows, and again.. i turned out JUST FINE. 


i believe having a talk with my son and telling him, "you may listen to that, but you can only listen to it in our house.." and talking to him about how it's not a good song for him to sing in public and all that, and as he gets older start explaining songs to him... i think that's better. this is just my way of parenting. this also lets him choose what kind of music he likes and doesn't like. 


i just don't see the point in hiding things like that from him, when i KNOW he will hear them eventually. 


he's a curious kid, so i know he'll ask me all sorts of things, 
like: what's this mean? what's that about? and all that.. and i'll tell him.. well i'll tell him in little kids terms.. so he doesn't run around saying things like "booze" or "sex" because he's still way too little to understand that.. :p


i'm not saying i don't teach him the cute little songs that he should learn like ABCs and Itsy Bitsy Spider, because i do. he hears those songs more than other songs.. he loves to dance to his ABCs and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (: it's SOOO adorable!! (: he also loves theme songs to Handy Manny, Special Agent OSO, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Go Diego Go. So he's on a pretty good track, i just listen to anything and everything in the car with him, because sometimes on our long drive to school, i just need a moment to wind down from the busy day we just had, and music is the only way i'll wind down and calm down before school. 


also as a side note, when they cuss in songs.. i just block it out so he can't hear it. because he's at the stage where he repeats the most awkward worst word he can.. instead of repeating "bunny" or "shoe" so when he says something that sounds even remotely close to a curse word, i change his word and say something cute so he says that instead. (: 


xx -
hope

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