Heidi Stevens: Our parents were scandalized by our music. But listening together — without judgment — can be relationship glue.

My son and I were driving home from school the other day when Gayle came on the radio, singing “ABCDE forget you.”

She doesn’t actually say “forget,” my son informed me. And she doesn’t say “broke-down car.” And she doesn’t say “stuff you call art.”

“Hang on,” he said. “I’ll play you the real one.”