Parenting Teens: A Soundtrack

Have you noticed there aren’t many songs about parenting teenagers? You can’t throw a search engine stick without hitting a song about some cute little adorable baby just bursting with promise and potential. The performer just sing on and on about how wonderful it will be to watch them grow and develop. That is, apparently, until they reach adolescence. What’s the deal? Maybe it is because teenage kids aren’t so cute and cuddly any more. Maybe it’s because they argue all the time. Or because they are busy making up their own minds about what they want to do and who they want to be (and getting it WRONG). Maybe it’s because teens are busy writing songs about how terrible PARENTS are!

As you brush off this clean, fresh new year, here are a few songs to get you back into the mood of parenting your teen. (If you subscribe to the online music site Spotify, you can find this playlist here.)

Feel free to use the comments section to add any songs you come across that can be added to the list.

Enjoy.

Still Fighting It by Ben Folds

Vienna by Billy Joel

Forever Young by Bob Dylan

Wild World by Cat Stevens

Father and Son by Cat Stevens

Oh Very Young by Cat Stevens

Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Who Are Parents? by The Danielson Family

100 Years by Five For Fighting

Cat’s In The Cradle by Harry Chapin