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What do you sing to your DC?

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Fortuny · 28/09/2022 19:14

FTM and other than gin fuelled karaoke, I'm not really a singer or musically inclined. I think it's important for LO's and I want to make an effort to improve, but pathetically just realised I don't even know the second verse of old McDonald.

What songs or rhymes did your DCs love? Or any tips for the musically challenged. I'm out of my depth!

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Piscesmumma1978 · 28/09/2022 19:15

Ask Alexa to play nursery rhymes! You’ll soon pick them up!

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Fortuny · 28/09/2022 23:39

Piscesmumma1978 · 28/09/2022 19:15

Ask Alexa to play nursery rhymes! You’ll soon pick them up!

That's a good idea. No Alexa but I bet Spotify will have a playlist

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WhiteFire · 28/09/2022 23:45

Back in the olden days I had a nursery rhymes cd.

By olden days I mean 16 years ago.

We also had cassette tapes, which at the time we could also play in the car. (Until 7 years ago)

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Skinnermarink · 28/09/2022 23:45

I go a bit off piste… Down By the Bay, Skinnermarink, and I made up one about a baby burrito. Try the first two, they’re great!

TheLoupGarou · 28/09/2022 23:45

Literally anything in desperation - ds1 was so hard to get to sleep I used to work through my full repertoire of nursery rhymes, 90s indie/grunge classics, my mum's 70s collection and my grans ww2 hits 🤣

He always liked 'dream a little dream of me', and 'away in a manger' (forgot Christmas carols!)

WhiteFire · 28/09/2022 23:47

Though I never sang to them to go to sleep, I wanted them to sleep, not scream at the onslaught of my awful singing.

DinosaurPyjamas · 28/09/2022 23:48

When she was little and didn't understand I sang some really quite violent and depressing pogue songs to get her to sleep 😵‍💫

Also twinkle twinkle little star (Google extra verses to make it less mind numbing), Rock a bye baby etc

And we made up songs using the tune to London Bridge is Falling Down ("Let's all sing the nappy song, nappy song, nappy song, let's all sing the nappy song, my fair baby")

MonkeyPuddle · 29/09/2022 00:00

I sing the DC our ‘love you song’ at bedtime. It’s made up, we sing it together and has parts where we give each other kisses. I adore it.

Abouttimemum · 29/09/2022 00:01

My DS got anything from Sound of Music or Mary Poppins when he was a baby! I soon picked up the traditional ones, Hush little baby, twinkle twinkle are his faves for bedtime. And the rainbow song regularly!

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Fortuny · 29/09/2022 00:02

MonkeyPuddle · 29/09/2022 00:00

I sing the DC our ‘love you song’ at bedtime. It’s made up, we sing it together and has parts where we give each other kisses. I adore it.

I love this 😍 care to share the verses?

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Fortuny · 29/09/2022 00:03

Skinnermarink · 28/09/2022 23:45

I go a bit off piste… Down By the Bay, Skinnermarink, and I made up one about a baby burrito. Try the first two, they’re great!

Baby Burrito sounds like an absolute banger Grin

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Coybubbles · 29/09/2022 00:06

If you go to any baby groups you’ll probably pick some songs up. One thing I realised is they don’t care what you sing to them or what your voice is like they just love it because it’s your voice and babies like songs and music.

Incy wincy spider and twinkle twinkle little star are great as you can do the actions too..:/just make them up if needs be, and baby can have fun tracking them.

BlueRaincoat1 · 29/09/2022 00:08

They're a bit old for them now except if the little one is sad, then he'll still ask for songs :-(

We often did:
twinkle twinke little star
Hickory dickory doc (up to 4)
The time to say goodnight song from the end of cbeebies
Incy wincy spider
You are my sunshine (1 verse only)
The wheels on the bus, but i would do 'wrong sing' where the wheels on the bus go swish swish swish, or whatever. Small children find that really funny, because they thinks it's so funny to correct you.
We also did 'all the baa baas' - there's a few versions of baa baa black sheep and we'd do them all with colours of their choice.

Bed times were interminable sometimes 😂

MonkeyPuddle · 29/09/2022 00:09

@Fortuny its really simple

i love you
yes, I do,
I would run round the world for you (kiss kiss)

I love you, (kiss kiss)
yes, I do (kiss kiss)
I would run round the world (kiss kiss) for (kiss kiss) you (lots of kisses!)

DS is 5 and told me it makes his heart happy and full of love when we sing it.

BlueRaincoat1 · 29/09/2022 00:10

Oh and songs by the wiggles - Big Red car, Michael finnegan, and five little monkeys jumping on the bed. They loved the monkeys one.

treadcarefully · 29/09/2022 00:10

I used to hum 'feed the birds tuppence a bag' Mary Poppins to my two to get them to sleep and hum 'you are my sunshine' to my granddaughter to get her to sleep.
I just sing nursery rhymes that I learned as a child and more modern ones like 'wheels on the bus'. Many a car journey we sang to cassette tapes of nursery rhymes.

angerelle · 29/09/2022 00:12

We did the usual nursery rhymes, but I also really loved the Playsongs book and CD. Lots of the songs have actions, some are funny, they're easy to sing and remember and they are beautifully sung on the CD by Sandra Kerr (from Bagpuss) and Leon Rossolson. Suitable from when they are tiny babies til they are much older.

Brings back such lovely memories!

ErrolTheDragon · 29/09/2022 00:19

There's no defined verses to Old Macdonald, you just make them up as you go. It gets funny when your dc is big enough to suggest animals and then you have a split second to think up what noise they might make.Grin
Similarly, 'The Animals went in two by two' was somewhat variable.
I sang lots, old ones surfaced from the depths of my memory inc 'Three Little Foxes' , and then new ones learned from a CD. One of my favourites was Ten Tiny Fingers.

ErrolTheDragon · 29/09/2022 00:21

And when DD was tiny, some songs which aren't nursery rhymes like 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' and 'Summertime'.

whingewhinge · 29/09/2022 00:51

I sing my favourite songs (which makes me really laugh when I hear him humming them as he wanders around the house)

Strokethefurrywall · 29/09/2022 00:52

I've been singing "Baby Mine" from Dumbo since June 2011. Every single night.

DS1 is too old for it now at 11 years old but DS2 (8 yrs) still has me sing every night.

Sometimes I mix it up with:

  • don't want to miss a thing - Aerosmith
  • Annie's Song - John Denver
  • enter Sandman - Metallica
  • the first time, ever I saw your face - Ella Fitzgerald

I also used to wake up DS1 singing "zippedy doo dah", but now when I do it he scowls at me and tells me to go away. He'd wake up beaming when he 1!!

Sonyo · 29/09/2022 00:59

All the traditional ones like Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Humpty Dumpty, Hey Diddle Diddle, Rock-a-bye Baby etc., as we have a big book full of them, and Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes, Baby Mine, You Are My Sunshine and DS absolutely loves Big Rock Candy Mountain. Only 1month old and 22months so still love my awful singing voice!

AcrossthePond55 · 29/09/2022 01:25

Lots of Beatles (Blackbird, Golden Slumbers, etc), old American & Appalachian folk tunes (Clementine, Down in the Valley, You are my Sunshine), and a smattering of Broadway ballads. That's what I sang them to sleep with.

During the day it was lots of good old rock n roll. And Raffi, especially Baby Beluga.

SarahWoodruff · 29/09/2022 01:27

I always sang Moon River, which DD now sings to me.😊

Ohjustboreoff · 29/09/2022 01:30

I sing like a cat getting their balls stamped on but my DC's, bless their hearts, like me to sing Twinkle Little Stars and Dream a Little Dream at bedtime.