to sing harmonies in toddler music sessions?

[PrincessPotsie]

Am I turning into one of those annoying mums? I always remember a v annoying dad doing sit ups during 'Row Row Row Your Boat' at a playgroup I once went to. He definitely was BU...

I do harmonise at carol service!

I don't see anything offensive about people harmonising, it would just make me feel a bit . It's not a forum for parents to demonstrate their superior skills.

can harmonise and play 3 instruments but you don't see me rocking out a drum solo on the kiddie drums

Wind the bobbin (the bobbin uppppppp)
Wind it back again (it's winding baaack)
Pull Pull, clap clap clap (pu-u-u-ull and clap)

slithy do you sound like this?

saga no, but I wish I did! Just listened to their version of somebody that I used to know, bloody brilliant.

However I am inspired by this thread, and may have to improvise a rap to wheels on the bus at rhyme time next week. It needs modernising I think

MY DD loves their Sesame Street video!

"Sittin' in my bus with the wheels goin' round, got ma bitches on the horn, makin' a beep beep sound..." Any good?

I don't have a problem with anyone singing the descants or other harmonies at carol/church services either, but that's just not the same!

Yeah but maybe not at a school service where literally no one else does it, when you're a parent, I think.

Oh no, definitely not then. That is definite cringe-material for the child.

"Why do you think some people think it's nice to hear harmonies on the radio but not in real life?"

Show me where I said that, Wigglylines. You're being rather silly now.

Surprised this is still going on. I rather think on this one people are going to have to agree to disagree.

However, still can't get how anyone would think it appropriate to harmonise in these circumstances.

I've sung alto in a choir and have had people standing next to me who are not very experienced singers going off with the sopranos and it's bloody distracting.

Can't imagine how a group of small people are going to cope with someone going off on a harmonising kick while trying to keep the wheels on the bus from falling off.

Love it saga

at Hibiscus

LOL, I dunno that citing Mr Tumble an an example of a person that harmonises, is the best way to make it seem more acceptable...

yes alright, alright, I have to admit it wasn't the best example to use, the point I was trying to make is he does it baldy and yet kids love it and learn the song

And by baldy I mean badly, he has a fine head of hair .

So out of interest, should I have stoppedymtoddlerd from harmonising at music groups? They always did, as it was something we did at home.

I usually managed to stop t trying to turn every song into a round, but harmonising? Forget it. They did it as naturally as breathing.

But should I have stopped them?

I'm about to start taking ds (nearly 2) along now. He has been strictly tutored by his older sisters, and does indeed sing harmonies. Would he be viewed as a show off wanker too? Or is musical talent and enjoyment ok to be displayed in public under a certain age? I'd like to know the cut off point, so I can be sure to squash it outbid him before he is thrown out of the group for subversive behaviour.

he is probably Fucked either way Pandas, you do sound like one of those show off arty types he may as well get used to it now.

That's just the thing, I'm not!

I musical, but before I had children I had never sung alone/anywhere I could be heard individually due to crippling shyness. I even refused to do the singing part of the aural tests in music exams.

And then I had dd1 - severely autistic, and gifted musically. We communicated via song for the first 5 or so years if her life. So I had to sing in public (eg while going round he supermarket etc). I hated it, but had no choice.

Then along came dd2, equally musically gifted. So ten we were 3, all singing away to each other. And since I had someone else musical who could understand me, we started on harmonies and rounds and other stuff, just to vary the days a little...

Thankfully communication is a little easier in the Panda household these days, but the singing remains (although i don't have to participate in public anymore, thank god!) and so ds has had a thorough grounding already, as the dds are very good at mercilessly hot housing him including him. So he has been taught alternative times to most nursery rhymes...

Maybe we shod just give the music groups a miss?

No don't, just go. Harmonise your heart out.
Honestly I think the majority of people will think you're a wanker or a show off etc at some point, you may as well be enjoying your self while they do it.

The OP was about the parent at the toddler group.
I'm sure few would take umbrage at an actual bona fide toddler's artistic expression at the toddler group. It is all supposed to be about the toddlers is it not.

Sorry that looks like I'm calling you a wanker I'm not.

I fact that didn't come out at all how I meant it to.

Arya.

I won't enjoy it, whether I harmonise or not! But ds will, and so we will go.

Oxygenna - that takes me back to my quesiton - if it is ok for ds to do it now and force me to join in with him at what point does it become not ok for him to do it? After all, he will grow up to be someone who thinks it is socially acceptable to harmonise at toddler music groups if I don't make him toe the line teach him any different.

it's too late for my dds, clearly. but at least they are past the time of toddler groups, and so have that brief respite int he middle, where they can do all the choral work and harmonising they like at school without being judged for it, before havign to squash it all down if/when they have children, before they pass on their knowledge and enjoyment.

If you send a bouquet of flowers to congratulate him on the birth of his first child, maybe write it on the little card that goes with them.