I Told Myself I Would Never Play “Kids Music” for My Children. How Little I Knew About Motherhood.

Music Our No-Raffi Household Grows Up When my husband and I became parents, we thought we had a rule that would keep us ourselves. How wrong we were. Sept 01, 202610:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Ian Gavan/Getty Images and Getty Images Plus. Editor’s note: Rebecca Knight is the editor of Notes to New Mothers, a collection of 65 writers and artists riffing on parenthood, out today from W.W. Norton. 1. No Raffi My husband made a rule when we had kids that there would be no Raffi in our household. To him it was sonic Barney, Laffy Taffy, a capitulation to infancy and the end of his own adulthood. 2. Dignity We live in a rural area where the nearest grocery store is a 25-minute drive; 25 minutes of music is a golden nugget. Our nuggets include Leonard Bernstein narrating The Car