Reel Perspectives December 26, 2025 Courtesy of HBO Director Penny Lane explores why children’s music deserves more respect—and still knows how to move us Clap Your Hands or Not, Children’s Music Still Matters Do you remember the first children’s song you ever heard?   Mine was “Itsy Bitsy Spider”—right alongside “You Are My Sunshine” and “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” Long before playlists and algorithms, those songs taught me how music could feel: simple, repetitive, and weird