He also likes saving up allowance to go CD shopping and looking through the booklets that come with the CD. My youngest son loved this and still uses it occasionally. If you have a large CD collection at home sitting around collecting dust, you can buy a cheap boombox/cd player and hand down your CDs.

I first want to share that up until recently, my boys were very content with non digital options and I highly recommend these for younger kids. This question comes up at almost every workshop I teach and I myself have been struggling with it for a long time. Music is now, almost exclusively, connected to a screen and many parents do not want their kids staring at a device all the time – especially alone in their rooms. For adult and teen music lovers it’s a treasure trove of music right at our fingertips, but for younger kids, the simple act of listening to music in their rooms can feel like a difficult task. These days, the music landscape is different. Whether it was top 40 on my boom box, a new CD or some vinyl, I could always steal away to my own space, make my own choice and explore. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was to sit in my room and listen to music.

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