... I used to sing a version of Brahm's lullaby (his tune - my own words!),"Rock-a bye baby" and "Hush Little Baby" (my words too!) and other songs that I found calmed them (and me!).
They all love music today so I think that singing them to sleep helped develop that in them.
Do you sing lullabies to your babies/toddlers?
2007-12-25 15:52:11 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Yes, I do. I don't really sing your usual lullabies but I do sing to him quite often. Ever since he was tiny, waking up in the middle of the night, and I was just plain exhausted I'd just sing. Maybe not for him so much as me. Haha! I'd sing Cheer Up Sleepy Jean, Close To You, Let It Be, and just soft songs but songs that I liked also. I still do it and he's two. There's only a rare occasion that he'll let me hold him like a baby but I still sing to him before bed and when he's upset.
2007-12-26 00:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by .vato. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not much of a singer, but my kids never did well with lullabies. I do know how to sing The Rigging of the Ship in celtic and that always calmed them, and than I made up a lullaby for my oldest. My second calmed down when I sang the Beatles, and my 5 yr old would go to sleep to headbanging music only. They are both very musically inclined though.
2007-12-25 16:24:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When my daughters were little I sang to them while sitting in a rocking chair.I carried the same tradition of singing to my grandchildren.I did sing lullabies but would sing other songs as well.I think the holding and cradling of the child in your arms is more important than the song itself.Unfortunately some people are of the opinion that when you rock a baby or small child you are spoiling them.What a sad point of view in my opinion.I always thought of it as a way to make a child feel safe and loved.
2007-12-26 02:21:45 · answer #3 · answered by gussie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I sing "Old McDonald", him having a duck and a cow, every single night with my almost 2yr daughter and have been for the last year or so. She thinks me quacking and mooing is the funniest thing in the world and starts giggling before I finish the first phrase of the song. (I'm sure I'd laugh too if I saw some big guy quacking and mooing.) If I dont sing it, she "won't" fall asleep and I've taped myself singing it for when she has to go to bed before I get home.
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2007-12-25 16:49:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have a horrible singing voice. I do play music all the time for our baby and she loves music. She is 18 months and any tune comes on even a commercial and she has to dance (as well as a 18 month old can dance) she loves to singing (again as well as she can do it for her age). I hope she did not get my singing genes. We will probably put her in our church choir if she wants to as she gets older. She already signings along with them might as well be up there
2007-12-25 23:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by Big Daddy R 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My husband and I sing all kinds of songs with and to our daughter. She loves music of ANY kind (example: Home Alone was on TV at my mother in laws house tonight. My daughter walked past just at the part with the polka band and John Candy: INSTANTLY started dancing!), so we play lullaby CDs, Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, current pop and rock songs on MTV and VH1, classical music, musicals like Sound of Music, and we all sing and dance like crazy people!
She's never been soothed to sleep by singing, even soft baby songs. It's like they wake her up and distract her from nodding off. She prefers hugging her blankie and bunny and given hugs and kisses, then she just passes out in her crib without one problem.
2007-12-25 16:20:59 · answer #6 · answered by Irritated Lactivist 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the usuals, but my daughter loved yellow submarine by the beatles and I get around by the beach boys when she was 6 mnths. Singing aids emotional and social development so sing sing sing. I am a spooky spider my name is hairy fred i get up in the morning and i jog around the bed when i wake up i always bang my head cos i live under (child's name) bed
2016-05-26 06:08:23 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I often used to sing to the children but all the kids/grandkids prefer rock music and would settle better with a Rolling Stones tape/disc and the youngest granddaughter prefers 'heart fm'
What a lovely picture 'jtral25' paints, doesn't he ?
2007-12-25 21:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by nanny chris w 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes to my own children and my grandchildren. Dream Angus a nice old Scottish song. They are all boys and I did and still do sing to the youngest one a girl is due in February.
2007-12-25 20:47:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Susan Goldberg discovered in:
Play behaviour of the one-year-old march 69. “That women take much longer to pick up a distressed baby boy, than to pick up a distressed baby girl.”
“Women sing lullabies to baby girls, but just talk to baby boys.” I wish you well.Terry.
2007-12-25 18:43:19 · answer #10 · answered by terrysains 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋