Family Intrusion Into Listening Time

[locrian]

Cato said something in another thread that prompted me to create this thread.

So, does your family's wishes and/or actions dictate how and when you are able to listen to your favorite music?

[Mark]

So, does your family's wishes and/or actions dictate how and when you are able to listen to your favorite music?

As a very new parent, absolutely.

I spend most of my waking time either preparing feeds, washing bottles or changing diapers (responsibilities shared with my wife, naturally). When I'm not doing the above, I'm popping out to the shops or doing laundry ... and soon, I'll be back at work. If I get time to listen to a single CD, I consider myself very fortunate. Not that I consider any of this a hardship - a baby is a joy, most of the time. But it's a markedly different situation to the one I've been used to until recently: I used to listen to 6-8 CDs a day.

[lukeottevanger]

What is this 'listening time' of which you speak? It sounds like a great idea - I'll run it past the kids...

[Cato]

Besides what I mentioned elsewhere about having limited time for music listening because of marital politics, I can relate stories from the good old days when the kids were small.

Volunteering to drive anywhere - with or without the kids - on any errand, real or imagined, allowed me to listen to the local classical station, or to put a tape of my own in the player.  I was like a 16-year old with a new driver's license!   

[Mark]

Besides what I mentioned elsewhere about having limited time for music listening because of marital politics, I can relate stories from the good old days when the kids were small.

Volunteering to drive anywhere - with or without the kids - on any errand, real or imagined, allowed me to listen to the local classical station, or to put a tape of my own in the player.  I was like a 16-year old with a new driver's license!  

Yes, I'm discovering that listening in the car (something I never normally do) is fast becoming more appealing.

[Kullervo]

Absolutely. I listen when no one else is home, which is from early morning to late afternoon during the week, and occasionally for most of the weekend. This keeps me from overindulging and, consequentially "burning out." I can't listen in a less-than-perfect setting (the perfect setting being relative silence, something that isn't possible with other people around).

[bwv 1080]

Fortunately I have a 1 hour commute - that is my listening time

[Cato]

Fortunately I have a 1 hour commute - that is my listening time

Where do you live?  Atlanta,        or some other similarly nightmarish place (at least for traffic)?

[Solitary Wanderer]

Sort of.

Basically when my wife is around I play things that won't be too distracting for her when shes sitting in the lounge reading or doing Sudoku. She prefers 'lighter' classical in general, but when we're prepping for a concert she'll happily listen to whatevers coming up.

She doesn't like jazz or rock and as I rarely listen to either of those styles these days we don't clash. If I listen to something like that I need to choose a time when shes out or in her office. I have driven her out of the lounge a few times  so I try to be sensitive to her feelings as I pretty much control the music in the household. 

[Mozart]

Nothing is more annoying than being in the middle of an opera and my dad comes by and starts vocalizing...It just ruins it completely! Luckily it doesn't happen often...But I have learned never to watch the barber of seville ever again. I will hear "figaro figaro figaroooo" for the next 18 months.

[matti]

Luckily it doesn't happen often...

My dad starts whistling every time he recognizes a melody, he just can't help it. Used to drive me nuts, now it's only funny.

[Que]

But I have learned never to watch the barber of seville ever again. I will hear "figaro figaro figaroooo" for the next 18 months.

Hilarious! 

Luckily my parents had no interest in music whatsoever.

Q

[Bogey]

What is this 'listening time' of which you speak? It sounds like a great idea - I'll run it past the kids...

Yes, my wife and I are taking in some Mozart violin sonatas as I type this against the backdrop of the kids pretending that the wood floor in the adjacent room is an ice skating rink, while our three basset hounds pursue them as if they were wounded foxes.

After 9:00 P.M. while I iron our clothes for the next day (see Muriel for details) and before 6:00 A.M. are my best times to listen.

[Don]

The kids are now adults and out of the house; my wife works all day.  I can listen to anything I want at any time I want using any audio system I want.  It's good to be free.

[Mozart]

My dad starts whistling every time he recognizes a melody, he just can't help it. Used to drive me nuts, now it's only funny.

Yup, my dad does the same thing. I try not to listen to anything in the same room as him He will even improvise whistle variations on a melody he hears.

Hilarious!  Grin

Luckily my parents had no interest in music whatsoever.

Q

Ohh my dad hates opera, he can't stand it. But he will still go figaro figaro figarooo lol. He makes fun of me, but every Sunday he watched this like Mexican version of American idol where all the singers sound like George of the Jungle. I think its over now, but man they were horrible singers!

[Lady Chatterley]

"Granny ,turn that music off"!

[longears]

Yes, my wife and I are taking in some Mozart violin sonatas as I type this against the backdrop of the kids pretending that the wood floor in the adjacent room is an ice skating rink, while our three basset hounds pursue them as if they were wounded foxes.

Sounds like heaven, Bill!

[Bogey]

Sounds like heaven, Bill!

Indeed it is David.  Indeed it is.  The Mozart's not too bad either.

[Sergeant Rock]

We have no children, Mrs. Rock loves classical music as much as I do, and we have three listening rooms each nicely isolated from the others so, no, no one intrudes on listening time.

Sarge

[BachQ]

[My wife and I] have three listening rooms each nicely isolated from the others so, no, no one intrudes on listening time.

When your 3 listening rooms are at full capacity, who inhabits the 3rd room?