To be devastated that DS6 has declared himself too grown up...

[Welshmaenad]

...for the head louse combing song?

And WIBU to share it and ask you to sing it with your DC so the legend lives on?

DS has long hair, always has, and Friday night is always the night we wash/condition and comb his hair (any more often with the washing and his hair gets brittle).

Since time immemorial we have sung The Head Louse Combing Song, partly to soothe him, partly to drown his bloodcurdling screams so the neighbours don't call social services. Tonight he turned to me in the shower and said "Mum. I'm a big boy now. You don't need to sing anymore".

I am crushed. So here in all its glory is the Head Louse Combing Song, copyright free, for your family use and enjoyment. It is set to the tune of Camptown Races, as all good songs should be.

Comb those head lice out* your hair
Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
'Cause we do not want them there!
Doo-doo-doo-doo-dah-day.

Rinse them down the draaaaaaiiiin!
Before we go insaaaaaaaaane!!
Comb those head lice out your hair
Doo-doo-doo-doo-dah-day!!!

In moments of extreme crisis you may break form and trill:

This is what I have to do
If you don't want licey-poos!

and then return to the song.

• I know 'out of' would be grammatically preferable but it doesn't scan, and sacrifices had to be made for art.

Enjoy. I'm sobbing into my gin over the death of a childhood.

DD had a poo sing too. To the tune of the theme tune from Pole to Pole.

Have a poo,have a poo (x4)

But don't fall in to the toilet.

Still sings it to herself and she's 20 next week

This is worthy of copyright.
Happy days

We do

"Rub him dry, rub him dry
La la la la la la la la rub him dry
Rub him dry, rub him dry
Have a little cuddle"

Princess yes, I think that's as close as you could get.

I feel like Bernie Taupin waiting for Elton to do the music

I will sing your song. It'll be brilliant. Thanks! As you may guess from my nickname I hate the creepy little buggers. :)

Ha ha, love the song OP.

My DD used to get out of the bath and had to pretend to be a pizza in her towel, she laid on the landing floor and had to be wrapped up in a specific way to be a pizza, sometimes she was the cheese on a pizza. She hasn't done that for ages and she is only 5 .

I hate this growing up lark!

We play I wrote to the zoo after the bath with my two

"I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet - I hope they didn't send me something fierce/cute/tall/ginormous etc and then they come out of their 'parcels' doing the best animal impressions

I've never thought about that ending before

We have the toothbrush song. Usually done while holding said child in a headlock.

Brush brush brush your teeth,
that's what big kids do
Up and down side to side
Clean teeth are good for you.

I will song your nit combing song next Friday. ( We're a screechy Friday night nitty gritty house too).

9yo ds will give me a total deathstare of horror but it'll be worth it.

May I offer

I'm a little (child's name) short and stout

Here's my bottom here's my snout

No one wants to pick me up
Because I'm such a smelly pup

Dd2 is 11 and occasionally still tolerates it. We are now at the stage where she tolerates my idiosyncrasies and somewhat regards herself as having a social care role in my wellbeing.

DS loves this one too, not my own, but I've developed the actions. We sing it with DS sitting on my knees facing me and holding my hands.

I went to the animal fair,
The birds and bees were there
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing her auburn hair
The monkey fell out of his bunk (open knees DS drops a bit)
Slid down the elephants trunk weeeee (tip DS backward head first)
The elephant sneezed (pull DS back up)
And fell on his knees
And what became of the monkey, monkey, monkey (insane bouncing of shrieking child on top of knees)

I used to sing Armitage Shanks over and over to myself on the loo as a child. It was written on the porcelain of the infant school conveniences. I might be a tad too old for that but I know a good manufacturer when I see one.

Oh mines is best sung when running the bath.

Oh god this thread has made me cry. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

I am adopting the nit song and I love all the other songs. We have a toothbrushing song and I've never thought about it one day not existing any more

TSSDNOCOP, great song, one of the best.

I have been banned from singing

Tall as a Runner Beaney

Tall as a Runner Beaney

My Names

And I'm Tall as a Runner Beaney

tall..as....a...runner........beaney.....

I have a bath song for baby dgd, as follows;

Splish splash I'm a having a bath
Splish splash I'm a having a bath
It's warm and it's soapy and it's so much fun,
I'm not getting out even when I am done
Pick me up and you'll hear me squeal
And wriggle and squiggle like a slippery eel.

Oh and the Mr. BlueMonkey song.

Mr. BlueMonkey, Please don't be Funky, You're such a Blue, blue, blue Monkey.....

He's in the loft

We have a poo song....for constipated dd. More of an ode to poo really, sung tunelessly to no particularly recognisable tune..
Hello Mr poo poo how are youuuuuuui?
Would you like to live in our loooooooooo?
We would very much like to meet youuuuu...
Why don't you come and say how do you dooooooo...

It works! You're all welcome.

Daily that's like a proper song with rhythm and everything, kudos!

CRYING at Armitage Shanks singing

"...you can do a wee! You can do a poo!
An-y-thing you choose!
When you do your toilet business (when you do your toilet business)
When you do your toilet business..."

This is so cute.
Please keep singing them to your DCs. They'll grow up to treasure it. (Even if it's about poo) My mother passed away at 15, and I love the memories of her singing to me.

It's six O'clock and the time has come
to wash your face and wash your bum.
So into the bath, off you pop,
and splish and splash and never stop!

My Irish Granny used to sing this to me, no idea if it's traditional or if she made it up but has to be sung whilst bouncing child on knee!!

Bob, bob a horsey
Bob, bob again
How many miles to Dublin?
3 score and 10
Bob bob a horsey
Bob bob again
Will I be there in time for tea?
Yes sir, and back again!

When my DS was little and settling down in bed we used to say,
"How does go to sleep, tell me how, how does go to sleep" and my sleepy little boy would reply "He snuggles down in his nice warm bed and sleepy dreams soon fill his head" BIG theatrical yawn from DS "That's how goes to sleep" Yawn....""That's how goes to sleep..........".
It was from the end of one of his favourite story books called 'Going to sleep on the Farm' and he can still remember it now and he's a 6ft tall 18 yr old.

Love it.

However not all good songs have to be to Camptown Races:

Lady Gaga - Bogey Face
Meatloaf - Good Poos go to Pooland (bad poos go everywhere)
Guns 'N Roses - Take me down to Parasite City

amongst others....