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鈥楴ot cool for a middle-aged woman鈥� 鈥� teenage girls will happily share their favourite tunes with mum, but boys usually won鈥檛

14 November 2018

Common ground between parents and children can be hard to find during the often-difficult teenage years. A shared love of music is one potential bonding area.

explained, “Music is a form of language that can be used within family units to connect people together. It has a very strong binding property.”

But parents hoping to connect with their teenager’s musical tastes may find it’s not necessarily a straightforward exercise.

Why girls share music with their mums, but boys don鈥檛

Dr Jill Morgan鈥檚 research discovered a divide between sons and daughters.

The difference between girls and boys

Dr Morgan’s research into how mothers viewed their children’s music – and vice versa – revealed that girls and their mothers were happy to bond and share their music.

Boys, however, were a different matter.

“One young lad told me he hated the idea of his mother liking his rock music,” she told Personal Best, “because he said it wasn’t cool for a middle-aged woman.

“He didn’t want his mother to identify with the same type of music that he was identifying with.”

Mums and sons, it seems, may have to find something else to enjoy together.