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What Are You Listening To?

Moms Council tackles a question about offensive lyrics in music.

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Music can be a hot-button issue between parents and kids. They hate your music, you hate theirs. Seemingly wholesome artists--such as Miley Cyrus--can make some choices that make you cringe. Catchy lyrics have inappropriate meanings that might be over the head of a 4-year-old, but that won't stop him from singing along with it in the car, or belting it out in front of grandma. 

What do you do as a parent? Do you worry about the example singers like Justin Bieber set? How do you regulate what kids are listening to in a world filled with Smartphones, laptops and iPods? 

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