{"id":1629,"date":"2019-12-05T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:08:32","slug":"happy-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/happy-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Traveling with young children is so easy and stress-free . . . said no one, ever! Parents today worry about touring with their tots, both because of how restless the children can get and because of the many opportunities for judgement of their parenting skills. But, fear not! The following useful tips for family music-making will help you put the <em>bon<\/em> in <em>bon voyage<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Play music in the car.<\/strong> Time and time again, we\u2019re told by parents that their Music Together recordings work like magic to keep their children happy and engaged while <em>ridin\u2019 in the car<\/em>, during both short and long journeys. Make a playlist of your favorites or shuffle and be surprised! And don\u2019t forget to sing along. Singing with others, particularly those with whom you share bonds of love and affection, releases feel-good hormones. Perfect for alleviating travel (and holiday!) stress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Use our Music Together app.<\/strong> No CD player? Every family enrolled in our classes also receives a download code to add their semester songs to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/app\">Music Together app<\/a>. Aren\u2019t registered yet? The free app comes pre-loaded with eight of our most popular songs. A road trip is a great time to try &#8217;em out! The app also comes with a free digital version of our <em>Hello, Everybody<\/em> Singalong Storybook to sing and read.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Add some variety to your playlists.<\/strong> Parents sometimes think it\u2019s best for their children to listen only to kids\u2019 music. Children actually benefit tremendously from being exposed to a variety of tonalities, meters, styles, and genres\u2014like you\u2019ll find in the Music Together collections. (That\u2019s also why adults often like our music, too.) Keep it interesting for everyone along for the ride with music from lots of genres, from classical to jazz to hip-hop.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Include music that you like!<\/strong> Sometimes you might feel more like belting along to Adele or throwing it back to \u2018NSYNC rather than singing one more rendition of \u201cJohn the Rabbit.\u201d That\u2019s OK! Since you are the best musical role model for your child, any songs that get you singing and jamming along will inspire your child to do the same. So, intersperse your children\u2019s go-to songs with your own and you can all rock out!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Has music made your family\u2019s travels easier? Share your story with us in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents today worry about touring with their tots, both because of how restless the children can get and because of the many opportunities for judgement of their parenting skills. But, fear not! The following useful tips for family music-making will help you put the <em>bon<\/em> in <em>bon voyage<\/em>. <a href=\"\/blog\/happy-trails\">Read more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,154],"tags":[129,20,156,155],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-2","category-musical-parenting-hacks","tag-childrens-music","tag-holidays","tag-musical-parenting-hacks","tag-traveling-with-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}