What songs do you sing to your children?

[ARMSDOWN]

Every night I read books to my son in bed then I sing until he falls asleep. We have a few songs which are quite special and often requested:

• You are my sunshine
• Dream a little dream by Ella Fitzgerald
• Sunrise by Norah Jones
• Fields of gold by Eva Cassidy
• God only knows by the Beach Boys

What special songs you do you sing to your kids?

DD4 loves:

Hush little baby.and the wellerman

None because they tell me to stop.

They are 17 and 19 though!

I would sing rock-a-bye-baby, ten green bottles and hush little baby :)

During the day we liked ‘the grand old Duke of York’ :)

Noooo! When I stay at my dad's house he still comes and sings me a song at the end of my bed. I'm 34....

When my son was in hospital and I couldn’t calm him down I started singing to him and I was so tired and ill the first song that came to my head was All Star by Smashmouth 😂so now that’s sort of our song! I will sing anything that pops to my head though, both my kids got a lot of Complicated by Avril Lavigne as babies because it starts with “chill out, what you yelling for”

You are my sunshine here too! Also A Thousand Years and Your Song.

Dd loved Elton John when she was a baby! As well as Your Song, I sang her Goodbye Yellowbrick Road and she loved it. If she wad upset for no obvious reason I used to sing that to her and she settled.

That's lovely. Your song is a gorgeous one.

Mine are grown up now but it was “you are my sunshine” and “morning town ride” (known as rocking rolling riding in our house)

You are my sunshine
Rock a by the bear
Miss Polly had a dolly
Wheels on the bus
Row row row the boat
shake your whammy fanny funky song😂😂😂

Basically anything that Miss Rachel or the wiggles song, we sing.

Mine is 17 and won't stop humming American Boy by Estelle at the moment. I sing The Killing Jar by Siouxie and the Banshees which drives her nuts.

When she was small I sang You are My Sunshine too. She has always lived pop and rock music though. Big fan of Florence Welch from Primary age.

You are my sunshine I'd clearly loved universally!

This is lovely! I'm going to learn some of these. Thank you for sharing

This little light of mine and Hush Little Baby.

We quite often have a sing along in the kitchen when my lot all pop in at the same time:

Tots Tv (I'm a Tot, je suis un Tot etc)
The Thomas The Tank Engine Theme Tune
Little Red Caboose (Barney The Dinosaur) complete with train arms and a foray into the living room
Mr Sandman
Dream A Little Dream

DS 28
DD 30 (has to be serenaded with the Goodnight song from Bear in the Big Blue House when she stays over for work)
DS 35

You are my sunshine and A your adorable 🥰

Mine have always loved Hey Jude

My son won't let me sing at all (in fairness I have a rubbish voice) unless the song is the one about a duck going up to the lemonade stand.

Hey! (bom bom bom) Got any GRAPES?

‘Yellow Submarine’, ‘Children of the Revolution’ and ‘The Ship Song’. In return DS (11) will serenade me with Imagine Dragons, Ed Sheehan’s ‘Bad Habits’ and Wham…

Love is all around me (change to on mummy's love you can depend)
Edelweiss
Fields of gold
The lord of the dance
Love a Christmas carol at the right time of year

@ARMSDOWN I can’t get through you are my sunshine when singing to DD without one of us crying at the “you were gone and then I cried” line!

I omit that bit 😁

When mine were lullaby age, they got Waltzing Matilda, The Slow Train (Flanders & Swann) and I'll Never Find Another You (The Seekers). At Christmas they got Silent Night in German, cos I used to like singing it at school.

Ds loved You Are My Sunshine and also Mr Sandman when he was little. He fucking hates me singing anything now 🤣

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard

Both my Dds loved Daisy Daisy Give Me Your Answer, Do.
It was a song my Grandma used to sing to me and I now sing it to my grandaughter 😊