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My partner and I are due our first in July, and I wondered how many people take their little ones with them to shows? What ear protection do you use for tiny ears, did you start taking them from newborn etc etc Or is it completely inappropriate? I don't want to miss any good gigs but obviously I've got the little lizards needs to be put first. Thanks :D

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First of all, congratulations on the expected one and best wishes too. My daughter is 20 but she and her boyfriend are into dance music, particularly hardstyle. Thus so I haven't been able to drag her to a Metal gig yet but she was close to coming to see Slipknot and Korn with me in Dublin there last month but something came up and she had to pull out. Maybe sometime in the future though.

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Hey - my kid will be three soon and I'd love to start taking him to gigs, but I don't know that he could stay interested for long enough right now. I've seen children's size over-ear hearing protectors, I think those would be better than earplugs. I do stop and watch street and subway performers with him, and he loves it. I think I was three or four when I saw my first show, so hopefully within a year he'll be ready to come hang out with me.

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Congrats!! :D I don't have kids yet but I will soon, a year or two I hope, I just need to salve the not having an apartment problem and move in with my bf but that's being taken cared of. :D I will take them to concerts but I think I will wait for them to become of certain age, at least 11/12. Not because I think it's inappropriate but because I think it would be exhausting for younger kids, and if they become sleepy and nervous neither of us can enjoy the show. And I would like them to experience all the beauties of a live concert :)

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My father always goes with me. He took me to see Marilyn Manson when I was 14 and Cradle of Filth when I was 16. He started to like many of the bands I liked because he saw them live :D Every once in a while he asks me if someone is playing nearby because he would like to go :D The only band we saw together that's more his band that mine were Black Sabbath.

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First and only time I went to a concert with parents, was many many years ago, with my dad and uncle on a Scorpions/Whitesnake concert. I've seen parents bringing their kids to concerts many times. Some dude had his 10year old boy to front line on a slayer concert. Not sure how he managed to do that.. (considering in Greece, the crowd is not really "calm" especially within at least ~100 meters from the stage) :P

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My parents have taken me to see The Rolling Stones twice - Once for the 2006 Bigger Bang tour at Sheffield when I'd just turned 11. And the other for their 50th anniversary tour in Hyde Park. I guess I've been to their concerts three times technically if you count when my mum was pregnant with me when she and my dad went to the Sheffield concert for the 1995 Voodoo Lounge tour, haha. Must have been pretty far into her pregnancy as well considering that was on the 9th July 1995 says wikipedia and I was born a month later on the 24th August... That's dedication. :) I'm not especially into the stones myself, but still it is a good experience. Otherwise, I haven't been to any concerts by bands I really like - I only really want to see Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, and possibly Iron Maiden if it was at a festival, but I'm not into them enough to want to go if it was them alone. I wouldn't mind seeing King Diamond - or Mercyful Fate if they ever do any touring at some point.

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