Clean Music for Teens: David Archuleta

If you are in the market for a clean CD for your teens, David Archuleta (former American Idol runner-up) has just released a new CD this month. And yes, the entire album is clean, I personally listened to and read every word to the songs myself! This album has mostly love songs on it and is avaliable at your local music stores or on-line. Click here to listen to clips of the songs.

Clean Songs for Teenagers

I know it can be hard to find clean music for your teenagers, so here is a list of 5 new and clean songs for your teens to listen to:

1. The Time of My Life by David Cook

2. Pocket Full of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield

3. Lucky by Jason Mraz

4. SOS by The Jonas Brothers

5. 7 Things by Miley Cyrus

Do your teens listen to any clean songs that are not on this list? Please share, we would love to hear from you!

Do You Know What Your Teenagers Are Listening Too?

WFMW: Teen Music Survey
Today, I was going to post a list of music groups with clean music for your teens to listen to. In order to compile the list, I asked 5 teens what bands they would recommend for my site. I told the teens the music had to be clean and something your mother could listen to. I started with a list of 30 music groups. I couldn't believe how hard it was to find clean music! The 5 teens did recommend the cleanest bands they could think of; however, between swearing, bad lyrics, and references to sex, I could only recommend a few of these groups.

From conducting this research, I have to ask one question: Do you really know what your teenagers are listening to?



Why it is Important for our Teens to Listen to Clean Music?

Music can influence our teens' actions for both the positive and unfortunately for the negative. Can teen music be linked to violent crimes? Consider these findings: The two shooters in the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado regularly listened to heavy metal and Goth. Three 15-year-old boys stabbed to death a 15-year-old girl in San Luis Obispo, California after listening to the song "Alter of Sacrifice" by Slayer. A 13-year-old girl in Paddock Wood, Kent committed suicide after listening to the hard-core punk band EMO. There are also studies correlating rap music and teen pregnancies.


Ways to Monitor Your Teens Music:

1. Actually take the time to monitor you're teens music.

2. Let your teen know, from an early age, that you will monitor his or her music.

3. Don't think that because you're teen already listens to bad music that you can't monitor it or change your teens listening habits. Take control of the situation. If necessary, talk to a teen counselor or read up on helping teens make wise choices. I know parents who use two good, in fact classic, books on this subject called "Parenting Teens with Love and Logic," and "Back in Control."

4. Before buying your teen a CD, go on-line and find the lyrics to the songs. http://www.lyricsmania.com/ is just one of the sites to find lyrics.

5. Research the bands on the Internet. All bands have Web sites and My Spaces or other sites to peruse. At these sites you can learn about the bands and hear examples of the music.

6. Listen to clean music yourself. You can't expect your teens to listen to clean music if you aren't.

7. Watch what songs your teens download onto their personal computers, I-pods, and MP3 players.


What has worked in your home to help your teen make good music listening choices?