The reverse is true too. Kids have different responses depending on which parent is present and if both are present.

Indeed, I find it fascinating seeing how differently our child will be with me, vs. when he's with his mother.

Of course there are differences because he speaks a different language to each of us, but even so his playing-behaviour is different, and I guess he's used to doing different things with us both.

(For example painting is something he associates with his mother, so he rarely wants to do that with me. While I'm the one who lets him choose music to listen to. As you'd expect for a three-year old he likes anything loud, Rammstein being a favourite, with The Prodigy being a good runner-up.)

Let him try some dramatic classical music sometime!

He's heard Holst's planets, Wagner's "ride of the valkyries", and other pieces. Some of them likes, but usually the kind of music he wants to hear has loud/regular drums and lots of guitar.

His reactions do amuse me though, I let him watch the video to Thriller before bedtime recently, and he thought that was awesome. But the Amy Winehouse video "Back To Black" was scary and he made me stop it!

Try Bolero

Part of what's useful about science is that when you study obvious things, sometimes you get a counterintuitive result. This time it confirmed the obvious, but that's not always true.

2AM crying... "Honey, it's your turn."