| I also can't work to music with words. Even an instrumental version of a song I know the words to is too distracting. I "hear" the lyrics and they break my concentration. I turn the radio off when I'm driving downtown and there are a lot of one way streets and construction going on - I need the inside of the car to be quiet so I can concentrate on my route. But my husband and my kids can all do complicated tasks listening to any type of music; it doesn't bother them at all. My husband is from a lively household (7 kids) and I think that when he was in high school, he needed background music to study to drown out the rest of the hubbub of the house.
I have accepted that my kids can study while listening to music, but I have to admit: I can't stand to see kids doing real homework in a room with a TV on. |