What this means is that the way a parent disciplines a child, for example, or the way siblings fight or threaten each other may, in fact, have a long-lasting effect on a child who already has an anxious temperament. Every child has a unique personality and a different threshold for various situations. So it is important to step back and look at family interactions to see if certain patterns arise. They may help you understand why a child might be behaving in an anxious fashion. Whenever my daughter and her friends listen to hard rock for a long time, their mood changes to kind of a dark or sullen mood.
Music certainly has a strong impact on our moods.
There are both positive and negative effects. Many of the rock groups and songs that teenagers are exposed to contain violent and confusing lyrics that teenagers often have a hard time processing. There is no doubt that the messages of some lyrics can contribute to mood swings in teens. If you are concerned about the effects that hard rock is having on your teen, I would suggest either discussing the music selection with your child or, at the very least, sampling some of the music for yourself, even if you feel silly, so you are more aware of the messages that your child may be receiving. That way you can talk about what it sounds like.