I'm afraid that I've sometimes CONTRIBUTED to the problem! Ooops!!!

I really DON'T think about what a lot of the lyrics to songs are if they're catchy. But at 26, I doubt there's much in lyrics that would shock ME. A few years ago we were listening to a song and my nephew ended up singing it all over the house. There wasn't any bad language, but the theme of the song wasn't exactly what my SIL probably wanted her 3 year old singing about.

I told her I was sorry and she actually thought it was kinda cute - but it made me aware of how much he was picking up, and I was more careful.

I usually just listen to the radio though - so sometimes I really do forget!!! Like I said, I make a more conscious effort now.

It really is amazing what kids pick up on. When I worked in a daycare, we finished getting ready for parents early, so the kids were sitting on a bench waiting for parents (it was a rainy day or we would have been outside) So I encouraged them to sing some songs. They were preschoolers, mostly 2 and 3. We did a few like old mcdonald and then I asked for suggestions of what they wanted to sing. One little boy kept raising his hand. First he wanted "All my Ex's live in Texas" and then when I vetoed that he wanted "There's a tear in my beer" LOL. We told his mom and she was mortified and blamed his father, LOL. My husband is hard of hearing so we used closed captioning now. My teens were watching Monty Python and the Holy grail and sometimes I was shocked to realize what they were saying, I had never noticed before until it was printed on the screen.

LOL! I put quite a bit of current music on my IPOD that DS (age 10) liked and I had heard it on the radio and was catchy. Then I started running while listening to it and really listened to the words! Ahhhhhh! Not so good! He just liked the music, but . . . .

I now listen the lyrics before downloading!