I think I found my son's "No Easy Way Out" — in a supremely unlikely place.
Robert Tepper's soul-jarring, synth-heavy rock anthem, famous for its placement during the driving montage in Rocky IV, is the song that gets my blood boiling for everything from weight lifting to grocery shopping (you need a little testosterone boost for those shopping-cart battles with the blue-hairs).
For my son, Crazy Toddler, I'm pretty sure the same effect is spurred by the hit cartoon "Wonder Pets."
I know, I know. This is a fairly tame, very positive program featuring talking pets that are the best of friends. Not exactly the stuff that chest bumps are made of.
But it seems to work for him. Today CT was watching that show — a very tame moment even by "Wonder Pets" standards — and I caught him pumping his fists and quietly saying "boom" two or three times ("Boom" is our special phrase for everything manly and physical.).
Huh.
No worries, though. Whatever gets the job done. And if he needs to tote a portable DVD player and a "Wonder Pets" disc into the lockerroom at halftime of his college basketball games, so be it.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
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Well, you know, they're not too big and they're not too tough, but when they work together...they've got the right stuff! Sounds like the perfect rallying song for our little athlete.
ReplyDeleteHAHA! I had to go look up No Easy Way Out on youtube because I forgot the tune. Yes, I remember in now! You're right, a total fist pumping song. But, wonder pets? Hmmm, there must be some toddler subliminal message going on there :-)
ReplyDeleteAt least he is getting pumped. You can work on his music taste later in life.
ReplyDeleteI used to listen to Metalica "One" before every party in college when I was a whiskey drinker. I guess that would be my song.