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In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?

Post Subject: My kids...Posted by anthony on: 2/13/2016

...like their own music when they can put it on, and they are 4 and 7 years old. Once they were old enough to negotiate with (somewhere around 2yo) they learned very quickly not to touch my stereo gear and the lessons have stuck to this day.

I love to flood the house with music. My kids love it and if there is nothing playing they will often put on their own bedroom systems and put music into the house. My wife is not always so keen about music loud or otherwise and sometimes just wants silence and often this corresponds with the time that I am in the mood to listen, and if it is appropriate I will close a door and we are both happy. But if I open that door I am reintegrated with the house and all of the family can, and do, use the room for recreation.

I think that the important thing is to have a listening room that is nice to be in. If it pleases your family and yourself to be in there then it will be used. If it is "Dads Space" and they have little say in when and how it is used then they will use it less often. On the other hand if it is a totally communal space then it is likely that there will be some sort of friction over its use from time to time. Eventually, the kids will want to listen to music in which you have no interest, or they will become immersed in other pursuits and their use of the room will vary and their tolerance to disturbances will be lower and I think that it is important that they have space available to follow those pursuits in their own comfort perhaps in another part of the house. How the listening room is used will vary with time, and in my opinion and how I would use it there needs to be flexibility in its integration with the rest of the house: open and inviting and accessible for parties and general family entertainment; in a position to flood the house with music; able to stem that flood of music to the rest of the house when it is appropriate.

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