It ain’t Hall and Oates, but the Dora music player will do in a pinch.

We created a bit of a monster. One night, Spouse and I fell prey to nostalgia and created a Hall & Oates station on Pandora. It was awesome for the first few hours of play, during which Nuala developed a taste for the best of 80s white-man pop-R&B. Now, she won’t listen to anything else, and because she’s a 2 1/2-year-old living in these times, she knows precisely how to manipulate the iPod to change it from the Public Radio app to the Pandora app and select the Hall & Oates station, then fast forward past any songs that aren’t sufficiently Hall & Oates-y enough.  Fortunately, there is also the Dora music player/book to scratch whatever itch she has for danceable music.

I can’t believe we prefer Dora to Hall & Oates, but there it is.

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