{"id":187,"date":"2013-01-28T22:17:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darlenemackenzie.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2013-01-28T22:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:17:23","slug":"keeping-up-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/2013\/01\/28\/keeping-up-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up With Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though a lot of people don&#8217;t like rap music, the reality is that this is the music that kids everywhere are listening to. If you want to know what&#8217;s going on inside the heads of your kids, you need to be in tune with what they are seeing and hearing.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of different kinds of rap music, including hip hop and gangsta rap. As a parent, I feel it is important to at least give rap music a listen and to keep myself informed of the top rap artists. You can keep up the latest in rap by going to this website: www.rapartists.com<\/p>\n<p>This site has info on all the popular rappers, with information on their albums, their biography, pictures and a link to the artist&#8217;s homepage.<\/p>\n<p>The site also has a rap forum, where people ask questions and make comments. If you have a question, you can post it there and you might be surprised at the support and help you can get from the other forum participants.<\/p>\n<p>I try and listen to a variety of music, exposing my kids to a variety of music along the way. I don&#8217;t like a lot of the rap that is so popular but I don&#8217;t give my kids a hard time about listening to it. I remember my parents giving me a hard time about the music that I listened to and that made me want to listening to it more as well as turning up the volume!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though a lot of people don&#8217;t like rap music, the reality is that this is the music that kids everywhere are listening to. If you want to know what&#8217;s going on inside the heads of your kids, you need to be in tune with what they are seeing and hearing. There are a lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/2013\/01\/28\/keeping-up-with-kids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keeping Up With Kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,17,18,19,22],"tags":[60,71,81,83,151,198,199,206,213],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-entertainment","category-family","category-music","category-opinions","category-politics","category-technology","tag-concerns","tag-daughter","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-music","tag-technology","tag-teenagers","tag-variety","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}