Concerts & Preschoolers ... Too Soon?

Last summer when I planned my blog, I added a concerts for kids blog around the Holiday. I imagined taking the boys to the Nutcracker, or any of a number of Holiday concerts.

Thankfully, we opted to have a trial run. It didn't go so well.

Yes, my boys love music. They know all of the words to the Bare Naked Ladies album Snack Time, as well as They Might Be Giants, Here come the ABCs. There love of music goes deeper, they like opera and classical music as well. Xander had a fabulous time at Opera in the Park when he was a toddler. Of course he fell asleep after the second song ... The boys also like the show Little Einstein's and their favorite composer is Tchaikovsky.

But to ask them to sit still for 30 minutes and just listen is too much.  As I think of it, I don't even think we've successfully gotten them to hang around and listen to music (there was live kid's music at Pumpkins in the Park, and the boys just weren't interested).

We took the boys to our friend's Christmas concert. It was at a church in Woodside, Calif. We had gone before, and it was as low key as a Holiday concert can get. The boys don't get the point. We managed a total of ten minutes of listening time, only obtained through bribery. There was a nice spread afterward that included cookies.

I tried making up stories to go with the music. Everything I could think of, and it comes down to this ... our boys aren't ready to go to concerts. Am I giving up? No. But the Nutcracker, and other fun concerts are still one to two years away.