Think About It

As I was driving to work the other morning, I suddenly realized that I was listening to my parents’ music. I have several ways of playing music these days, but many of them are loaded with music that my parents would play when I was a child. Sure, being a child of the 60s and 70s I developed my own appetite for music (everything from Disco to the Urban Cowboy sound); but fifty years later you will find artists like Herb Alpert, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and the Platters featured on my playlists. My parents didn’t force me to listen to these artists but I couldn’t help but pick up their tastes living in their house. A couple days ago, I was recently talking to my son who had plans to attend the Jimmy Buffet musical, “Escape to Margaritaville” and realized I had passed on some of my musical tastes to my children as well. As I thought about my musical influences, I was reminded of a proverb, “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it