Should kids go to big rock concerts

One thing I'm sure Fred Rogers never did was take his kids to a Def Leppard concert.

Before my kids were born, I wouldn't have considered taking a small child to a rock concert. To this day, I like to separate the kid activities and the adult activities. We'll go to the zoo as a family, and leave the kids behind when we van cleef and arpels imitation butterfly necklace go to see "District 9." (It seems obvious, but you would be surprised how many people think exploding human body parts and small children are a great mix.) A concert seems like a terribly stressful place to take a kid, with the big crowds, smoking, drunk idiots and tendency for my favorite musical artists to include profanity and severed appendages in their between song patter.

And yet as his personality keeps developing, a father son outing to a place like Shoreline Amphitheater is starting to sort of make a little sense. I'm not going to be taking my 4 1/2 year old to a major rock concert any time soon. But I've definitely gone from "never going to happen" to "I'm starting to maybe van cleef alhambra necklace copy consider it." If nothing else, the pure theater of an Iron Maiden or Van Halen concert seems uniquely geared for a young child.

In the pre children years my values were all about the ideal. Of course I wouldn't take my kid to a place where he might hear people swearing and see drunks and stay up past his bedtime. In reality, he hears people swearing at each other in the supermarket, runs into drunk people van cleef and arpels imitation clover necklace every time we go downtown and stays up past his bedtime for reasons a lot more frivolous than an evening with ZZ Top.

I still haven't taken him to a 49ers or Giants game, knowing for a fact that he's too young and fidgety to spend more than an inning or half a quarter in his seat, before wanting to find a place to run and play. But at an AC/DC concert he could be running in circles, giving the people on the blanket next to him wet willies and urinating on the ground and still be the least annoying person in the lawn seats.

And yet the potential to kill the buzz of fellow concert goers is now the main reason I wouldn't take him to a show. I believe in the turf theory of parenting. And just as I have no sympathy for someone who is visibly bothered by the toddler noise at a kid friendly restaurant, I think Metallica concert goers have the implied right to rock their hearts out without repeatedly hearing me lecture junior about losing his sippy cup. I might take him to see the Strictly Bluegrass Festival or Eddie Money at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, but I probably won't be taking him to Rush at the Concord Pavilion any time soon. (I will be going myself, though. Snow dog is victorious!)

Do you like or dislike seeing kids at shows? Did you see a lot of kids at the recent Outside Lands festival? Do you take your own kids to big rock concerts?

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