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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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Sarahcoggles · 30/09/2022 08:39

I always sang Moon River to DS2. It was literally like switching off a light, he went to sleep straight away!
Mostly I made up words to well known tunes. I used to sing in the car too. I also learned the 12 days of Christmas - I reckon I can still remember it all these years later!

Iamblossom · 30/09/2022 08:39

Close to you by the Carpenters was what I sang to both my boys were they were little.

BryceQuinlanTheFirst · 30/09/2022 08:43

We make lots up, a song when we brush teeth etc just silly stuff.

Hushabye lullaby on BBC I player has lovely sleepy songs that are easy to remember

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inappropriateraspberry · 30/09/2022 08:11

I used to sing Moon River or Hush Little Baby a lot to DS.
I do think they like familiarity and hearing the same songs over over and again!

I agree. I had a little bedtime repertoire for each of my kids. Bedtime story then about 4 songs, the same ones every night, and they knew it was time to sleep.

I remember I always ended DS1's set with the lines of a song "sometimes, when I'm awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight".
He's 17 now and it makes me tearful remembering it!

Reallycomplicatedpants · 30/09/2022 08:51

I used to sing 'when you wish upon a star', 'careless love' at bedtime and on the way to school, along the river 'oh what a beautiful morning...'

Long time ago, happy memories

inappropriateraspberry · 30/09/2022 08:52

And my last words are always 'Sweet dreams, my custard cream. Keep your eyes shut, my ginger nut!'

Reallycomplicatedpants · 30/09/2022 08:52

Reallycomplicatedpants · 30/09/2022 08:51

I used to sing 'when you wish upon a star', 'careless love' at bedtime and on the way to school, along the river 'oh what a beautiful morning...'

Long time ago, happy memories

I really want some grandchildren!!

Reallycomplicatedpants · 30/09/2022 08:54

And as they got out of the car, I used to call 'Be good. And if you can't be good, don't get found out!'

They used to join in the end!

TheLoupGarou · 30/09/2022 10:00

This is such a lovely thread ❤️
My dd used to like "Miss Polly had a Dolly" and "My bonnie lies over the ocean" but she had a toy bunny and she used to want me to sing "my bunny lies over the ocean" and then make the bunny fly in and hug her. She was a wee cutie. If I try to sing now she puts her hand over my mouth and yells 'stop'! 🤣

inheritanceshiteagain · 30/09/2022 10:10

You are my sunshine.

Bootsandcat · 30/09/2022 10:14

Wheels on a bus and itsy bitsy spider are the favs in our house. Also miss Polly had a dolly, baby shark, dingle dangle scarecrow

VeridicalVagabond · 30/09/2022 10:29

When she was tiny I genuinely used to just sing anything to any tune.

"Hey small baby, you're a tiny baby and you smell you know, stinky girl, the way you poop's not fair you know" to the tune of Hey, Soul Sister, for instance.

As she got older and could actually understand me, Disney songs. She loves them, they kinda cheer me up too, everyone wins.

Danikm151 · 30/09/2022 11:29

We sing the I love you song from Barney every night with an added verse about loving you even when you do a poo!

Sunnidaze · 30/09/2022 12:06

I sing 'Let it go' from Frozen when we're in public and they aren't behaving...but I'm guessing that's not what you were looking for...

Vampirethriller · 30/09/2022 12:08

Mine likes the theme time from Birds of a Feather at bedtime!

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Fortuny · 01/10/2022 12:53

Sorry for not replying, 9 day old is keeping me busy 😅 this has turned into such a lively thread. Thank you, really grateful for all the helpful tips.

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milawops · 01/10/2022 15:37

Mine both love the Big Bang theory theme for some reason so that gets sung a lot in our house

Wazzzzzuuuuuuup · 01/10/2022 15:47

Skye boat song, Close to You, Golden Slumbers and God and Satan by Biffy Clyro when mine were babies😁

We also had lullaby nirvana and lullaby Metallica CDs

Tootlingalong · 01/10/2022 16:03

Dear Jessie by Madonna

HighlandPony · 01/10/2022 16:12

I sing the old songs that were sang to me. Irish lullaby, my love is like a red red rose, plenty of corries like the massacre of glencoe or mairi’s wedding (the Lewis bridal song) wild mountain thyme, all the blue bonnets, Johnny wade, chevaliers muster roll, Skye boat song. A lot of other trad like dhomhnail phadraig lagain and pheigi a graidh, bonnie lass o fyvie northern lights of old Aberdeen, the dark island etc. A lot of it’s quite morbid stories to them but it’s how we were raised passed down the generations.

roarfeckingroarr · 01/10/2022 17:30

I tend to make up songs to classic lullaby tunes. The words change depending on mood, baby (now toddler), time.

Ie "go to sleep, tiny bear
Go to sleep little angel
Go to sleep, tiny bear
Mummy loves you very much...

Can turn to

Go to sleep, tiny bear
Because mummy's bloody tired
Go to sleep, tiny bear
And I want to eat my food!

This has gotten me through many sleep deprived moments, making myself laugh in the dark.

MissMarianHalcombe · 01/10/2022 17:36

My youngest turned 21 yesterday and I distinctly remember my midwife saying sing anything, babies don’t mind what it is. Until he reached about 2.5/3 when sitting in his car seat he chirped “Mummy, Please don’t sing anymore, it’s not good” TBF he wasn’t wrong!

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Fortuny · 02/10/2022 10:40

MissMarianHalcombe · 01/10/2022 17:36

My youngest turned 21 yesterday and I distinctly remember my midwife saying sing anything, babies don’t mind what it is. Until he reached about 2.5/3 when sitting in his car seat he chirped “Mummy, Please don’t sing anymore, it’s not good” TBF he wasn’t wrong!

😂 harsh

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Fortuny · 05/10/2022 20:34

I just caught DH singing Whatta man by Salt & Peppa to DS HmmGrin

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DinosApple · 05/10/2022 20:44

I used to sing the entire nursery rhyme book to DD1 each night, and when DD2 came along both of them (two under 18 months).

My favourite to burst into though was Oh dear what can the matter be when they cried. I enjoyed singing about two old ladies stuck in the lavatory to my two tiny girls and could adapt easily the words and make up verses.

They hate it when I sing now 🤣, they are 11 & 13 so it's whatever I fancy now rather than nursery rhymes.

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