Dylan's Momma ([info]oni85) wrote in [info]parenting101,
@ 2008-11-18 16:51:00
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Just for fun
What are some of your favorite songs to sing to your little ones?

I sing my son songs from 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Phantom of the Opera', especially while he's eating and he is starting to react to me singing - it's soooo cute. But I should probably learn some proper lullabies - at least for when we are in public. One mom gave me a weird look when I was singing 'The Point of No Return' to Dylan. :D

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[info]luckyj_baby
2008-11-19 01:00 am UTC (link)
Weird....I was thinking of posting this very same question earlier today, since I can't remember too many lullabies, and it's all that my daughter will currently fall asleep to. I've been sticking mostly with "Twinkle twinkle", and "Rockaby Baby". But singing to my darling daughter about a baby falling out of a tree probably isn't all that appropriate. :-/

My husband and I both make up silly songs for her...but we're big dorks like that. :-)

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[info]oni85
2008-11-19 01:05 am UTC (link)
i changed the words to it... to make my hubby laugh

"rockabye baby,
in the car seat
if the car stops,
the baby will shriek"

only funny because it's so true :)

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[info]aerynmoo
2008-11-19 01:00 am UTC (link)
Noah used to love when I sang Aerials by SOAD.

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[info]amandavanessa
2008-11-19 01:13 am UTC (link)
Oh how I love that song

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(no subject) - [info]aerynmoo, 2008-11-19 01:15 am UTC

[info]surroundingyou
2008-11-19 01:01 am UTC (link)
My son LOVES 'Your name is ... and you're a movie star'. He also responds really well to good old Twinkle Twinkle when upset and loves it when daddy sings round and round the garden.

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[info]tuxedo_elf
2008-11-19 01:02 am UTC (link)
'Edelweiss' from The Sound of Music is my son's favourite song, no question! He only settles down at night once we've been through it about half a dozen times and it often calms him down when he's cranky too! I'm sick of the damn song, but hey, it works! :P

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[info]oni85
2008-11-19 01:03 am UTC (link)
oh that is SUCH a pretty song! i was in 'sound of music' when i was a kid. i will see if he likes it! :)

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[info]unlikeanyother
2008-11-19 01:03 am UTC (link)
yankee doodle is my favourite one to sing to him right now.

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[info]oni85
2008-11-19 01:04 am UTC (link)
oh nice. bouncy. easy to remember. :)

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[info]simba20
2008-11-19 01:05 am UTC (link)
Well I take popular rap songs and change the lyrics a bit and sing them to my daughter (16 months). I do it more for the shock value to others, but yet, the bass of most rap/hip hop soothes my daughter when we're in the car. So I figure, why not sing what's she's familar with.

And I do at other times, play kid's songs and kid's music. According to my daughter Old MacDonald is a duck farmer. Duck is the only answer she will give when we get to the "...and on his farm he had a ...." DUCK is her only answer.....she can name other animals (cat, dog, frog [bog], bird), but Old MacDonald only has ducks.

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[info]pattybluebird
2008-11-19 01:06 am UTC (link)
Even though I sing like a cat in heat, I love love love to sing! I've always sang to my little one (he's 9 now, to me he's still my little one!).

One of my faves is "Baby, Baby" by Amy Grant.

Also, "You are my sunshine" with his name added, "You are my sunshine, my Daniel sunshine..."

It was very funny - when he was about 1 year old, he was in his carseat and I was in the front with a girlfriend and she and I were singing "Hey, Jude" along with the radio when suddenly we heard this "la la la la" coming from the back. He loves to sing too!

~ Patty

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[info]oni85
2008-11-19 01:08 am UTC (link)
awww~! i love it!

"you are my sunshine" always makes me cry. i sang it to him in the hospital and the nurse came in to ask me why i was sobbing haha

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[info]lysandrea
2008-11-19 01:11 am UTC (link)
I know it's silly - but my son loves it when I sing Veggietales Silly Songs. Besides that we sing mostly counting songs, like Five Little Ducks, Five Frogs Sitting on a Log.. you get the idea.

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[info]amandavanessa
2008-11-19 01:12 am UTC (link)
I sing classic rock...Neil Young/Tom Petty, etc

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[info]snappledapple78
2008-11-19 01:12 am UTC (link)
Inaudible Melodies by Jack Johnson

I don't know the lyrics by heart, so I just make stuff up. My husband always sings it to our son, and he loves it.

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[info]nuit_s_mom
2008-11-19 01:30 am UTC (link)
I would sing "How much is that doggie in the Window" and add barking into it. It would made my daughter laugh. It was great when she stated singing it back with the barking.

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[info]aimingforpeace
2008-11-19 01:51 am UTC (link)
We sang a lot of "You are my Sunshine" along with "Twinkle Twinkle" and "If I had a Hammer" oh, and the ABC song, of course. Otherwise, I'd sing made up songs and whatever song was going through my head at the moment. Hmm... also quite a bit of "Sunrise, Sunset"

that's all I can remember for now...

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[info]conuly
2008-11-19 02:08 am UTC (link)
I'm no better than you! Ballads, ballads, ballads - they're all about sex, murder, or sex AND murder!

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[info]lil_tater
2008-11-19 03:13 am UTC (link)
My husband was rocking out to Rent with our daughter this week. (She's only 9 months...hmmm, wonder when we should start skipping a couple of those tracks...)

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(no subject) - [info]dreamalynn, 2008-11-19 06:39 am UTC

[info]e_grady
2008-11-19 02:18 am UTC (link)
My not quite 3 year old's "song" is the Christmas song "Old Toy Trains" and the one that always calms my 3.5 month old is "Rainbow Connection." When my older one was a baby, it was "Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins.

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[info]clafount
2008-11-19 02:26 am UTC (link)
I sing "You are so beautiful to me" to my daughter (only it's "you are so boootiful") and let's see...."beautiful boy" by john lennon but I change it to "beautiful baby."

And her name is Jane so she hears a ton of songs about Jane (My Sweet Jane, for one).

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[info]fallfromfender
2008-11-19 03:20 am UTC (link)
"Sea of Love" by Catpower... you know, that super sappy song towards the end of Juno?
And Yo Gabba Gabba songs that get stuck in my head.
The only CD he will fall asleep to in the car is "Swiss Army Romance" by Dashboard Confessional.
LOL EMO BABY.

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[info]modestmichelle
2008-11-19 04:02 am UTC (link)
I love that song!! I sing that to my daughter :)

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[info]jenniah
2008-11-19 03:24 am UTC (link)
We sing odd things to our daughter.

I have no idea how they ended up being what we sing to her but pretty much every day she hears either "Three little birds", Bob Marley, "Least Complicated", Indigo Girls, the theme to Desperado (that movie with Selma Hayek and Antonio Banderas) in my horrible, really bad spanish, or about 45 second loop of that Feist song that was used in the Ipod commercial about a year ago, but with lyrics about her (Isabella is the greatest little girl...).

I blame not sleeping for a month while she was in the NICU and just singing whatever I could remember lyrics to.

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[info]rookie131
2008-11-19 03:58 am UTC (link)
My boy got lots of Indigo Girls before and after he was born. I love Least Complicated, but I sang All the Way or Galileo to him most of the time.

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(no subject) - [info]dreamalynn, 2008-11-19 06:41 am UTC

[info]beezelbubbles
2008-11-19 03:46 am UTC (link)
Er... Me and Bobby McGee always gets her to quiet down, usually followed by Mercedes Benz. The thing that gets her to insta-chill when she is freaking out for no reason is the theme song from the new (okay, recent) Speed Racer movie. I play the video on YouTube and as soon as those first notes hit, she goes absolutely silent then starts smiling. Puffy Ami Yumi is another favorite of hers. we've added that last song from Juno to the list.
For the life of me I can't ever remember the words to traditional songs, so this is what she gets. =D Overall, I try to keep it to mostly classic rock and some punk, but she seems to dig on the j-pop and techno.

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[info]daveandmonika
2008-11-19 03:50 am UTC (link)
Mine is a toddler so he asks for what he wants...Bouncing Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Rock-a-bye Baby, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Humpty Dumpty, This Old Man, Mary Mary, Little Jack Horner, Jack and Jill, Roll the Gospel Chariot Along, We're Building Up the Kingdom, The Wise Man, Jackie Blue, The Chipmunk Song, Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman...

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[info]modestmichelle
2008-11-19 04:02 am UTC (link)
I alwaaaaays sing my daughter Coldplay when Im putting her to bed.

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[info]rookie131
2008-11-19 04:02 am UTC (link)
My guy LOVES Baby Signing Time, so we sing a lot of those songs. I also sing Jolly Holiday from Mary Poppins and put his name in the song. When he was tiny and unhappy that and Beth by Kiss were the only songs that would calm him down.

We sing a lot during the day. Lots of (edited) Pink, James Taylor, Indigo Girls and whatever 80s stuff pops into my head.

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[info]honey_bear79
2008-11-19 04:19 am UTC (link)
My aunt is the "children's choir" director at her church, so she teaches us all kinds of fun stuff with hand motions. Nursery rhymes too. Right now our favorites are Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and she does all the hand motions that my aunt taught her. She's 21 months. She'll just bust into motion soemtimes and I have to start singing. OH - and If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.

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[info]lydia9679
2008-11-19 05:45 am UTC (link)
I sing choir songs to him a lot of the time from my days in a youth choir...and also Return to Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins. I also tried Stay Awake from Mary Poppins the other day when I was trying to get him to take a nap. He didn't get the reverse psychology, though. :-P

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[info]getdestructive
2008-11-19 05:59 am UTC (link)
my kids love dr seuss & shel silverstein books, so i sing all the books to them rather than reading, they go crazy.

mostly though, i make up my own songs. haha. for instance:
"who's
a handsome little man?
he's a handsome little man...
so handsome!
he cannot help it!
who's
a handsome little boy?
he's a handsome little boy.
i love him!
i just can't help it." hahahaha my son goes crazy for it.
also made up my own version of the spongebob theme song for each child as well.
"ohhhh! who is the cutest boy you ever did see? xander mahlecke (ma la kah)! obnoxiously cute and handsome is he, xander mahlecke... if huggies and kisses be something you wish.. xander mahlecke! then come on over and give him a kissss.." haha. again, both my kids go nuts for it.
the version for my daughter:
"ohhh! who is the cutest girl you ever passed by? jackie mahlecke. with beautiful hair and beautiful eyes. jackie mahlecke. if nuks and high fives be omething you wish, jackie mahlecke.... then come on over and show her your fist..." hahahaha.
(when she's prud of herself for doing something she'll say, "all right! gimme nuks" and then she'll like, pound my fist. haha so cute.)

but you know what's really rad, if you can't seem to find any baby-specific music you like? rockabye baby. check it out.. you can download the songs online, as well. really rad. i only have the tool cd so far, but my friend reminded me of this website just yesterday and is making me copies of hers as soon as she gets a chance :)

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[info]leahkay96
2008-11-19 06:19 am UTC (link)
I have the Tool CD too. Love, love, love it.

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[info]leahkay96
2008-11-19 06:17 am UTC (link)
The theme song from "Weeds."

"...little boxes, on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky..."

I know the underlying meaning of that song has nothing cute or baby-ish about it, but when you're sleep deprived, anything goes I guess.

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[info]oni85
2008-11-19 06:17 am UTC (link)
i often find myself singing that to myself - it's catching

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(no subject) - [info]purple_mctacky, 2008-11-19 06:53 pm UTC

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