She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy!
Much to our horror, my wife’s aunt gave our twin children each a radio a couple of years ago for Christmas. We monitor our children’s media consumption very carefully! Let me tell you how strict we are.
My kids can look at some morning cartoons and any of the videos that my wife has bought for them. Other than that, they don’t really know that the larger world of child inappropriate content is available. We won’t even let them watch Shrek–I think the donkey’s a smart a$$ 
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So, when they opened their gifts from their aunt, imagine our horror that they were working radios!
We couldn’t very well take the radios away from them, so for a while we just didn’t buy the right kind of batteries. That lasted all of about a week, then I gave in.
We put the batteries in and turned the radios on. My wife had preset the dial to a fairly decent station, so when the music came on at least it wasn’t offensive.
I can just imagine my daughter, who was all of six years old at the time, turning on the radio for the first time and listening to rap. Actually, it might not have been too bad. She’s never heard half of their 40 word vocabulary. She would be hard pressed to even understand what their idiocy was about.
While I wondered if my children were going to lose their innocence thanks to a Christmas gift, my wife and my daughter found a station that wasn’t too bad, and my daughter promised not to turn the dial unless she had permission. (For some reason, my son never got that interested in his radio. Maybe it was because I had borrowed it and taken it into the basement to listen to while I was working. )
Over the next few weeks, I would pass by my daughter’s room and hear the music playing. Knowing that my wife was monitoring the whole thing, I never stopped to listen to what type of music was playing.
Then one evening, my little girl ran up to me and burst out “Daddy! I just love country music!”
Country music! So, that’s what she’s been listening to. She rattled off the names of a few artists–I had actually heard of most of them, and then she started to sing me a selection of her favorites.
I’ve always listened to either classical music or rock and roll. (I like Aerosmith!) But since my little girl was into country, I started to listen to it during my morning commute.
Country’s come a long way since I was a kid! I really like Carrie Underwood’s song about trashing up her cheating boy friend’s car. As a matter of fact, this music really resonates with me. It’s family oriented, father oriented, patriotic. What more could a guy like me want?
About the worst I’ve heard is the line I used as the title for this post: “She thinks my tractor’s sexy”! Honestly, you can’t get much better than that.
This is far and away better than self-hating, misogynist, cop-hating, racist (did I leave anything out?) rap!
Country music values the family while not just glossing over the rougher aspects of life.
No, now that I’ve listened to it, I don’t mind my little girl listening to country music at all.
Oh yeah, one more thing. I just hopped over the Carrie Underwood’s official site. I wanted to make sure I spelled her name right. Now I’m an even bigger fan!
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