How old were your DCs when they started to sing in key?

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I mean sing with the correct musical notes, not necessarily the right words.

Anyone remember?

well... DS1 is 6 and still doesn't. DS2 is 4 and does. I guess it depends on how musical they are?

I can't sing in key and i'm 28! Not holding out much hopfor lo

My DD1 could sing really well from when she was around one. She used to wake us up every morning by singing in her cot - it was lovely. She still has (at age eight) a really good singing voice.

Sadly, DD2 prefers to wake us up by screaming our names at the top of her voice...

Patsy

DS1 about now, at 2 years 4 months, but only for lulabies and slower rhymes, not for fast songs. He also has a 'rock and roll' voice where he sings a song screaming at the top of his voice, it's so funny... you can imagine a 2 yo headbagning and shougint twinkle twinkle little star it's hilarious...

DH is 37 and has never managed it .. so it may be a long time coming for the mini sags...

By 2 I could pick up a tune I didn't know from dd singing it to me (she was 2 I mean).

DS is 22 months and he's been humming his favourite nursery rhymes in tune for a while. I however, at 29, am yet to be as good! He's obviously inherited the musical genes that bypassed me.

funny, i have just been wondering about that! My ds doesn't (at 17 mo not surprising!) but one of his little buddies who is same age kind of sings along to "twinkle twinkle" in tune, its amazing!

Yes I'd say ds has been from about 2 years old; I noticed particularly, because his dad and me certainly can't do this

Funny thing is he HATES singing and rarely does it, so there goes his singing career!

Ds1 - not yet. Well, once in a while, almost - he is nearly five.

Ds2 started singing along to his cot thingy at about 3 weeks old, I kid you not. I think I posted about it, it was weird!

Mind you my mother has a tape of me singing the whole of 'Joshua' at a few months old, just a little breathy song, totally in tune but without the words because I couldn't talk!

As soon as they could sing, they sang in key. Age 2 I think.
They must get that from their father!

both of mine could before they could talk - but their father has perfect pitch. I have a cloth ear ans still can't at older than I am prepared to admit.

DD could sing before she could talk and still has a lovely voice.

DD has just turned 6 and still doesn't! Not sure any of her friends do TBH either - certainly doesn;t sound like it when they are here singing along to High School Musical and Hannah Montana anyway!

I can't sing either.

Oh, we sing a lot. DD is always singing. She forever has her music on, dancing and singing along, or making up her own little songs. But she just can't do it in tune! Doesn't stop her fun though.

3 out of 4 of mine always have

Both mine love music, the 6 yr boy wants to be in a rock band but hardly hits a note. 3 yr boy seems to have managed from a year. Oddly he has poor clarity of speech but older one was the opposite and had comments from young about his ability with sounds !

oh dear, my dd 4.6 does not sing in tune. She must get that from her daddy.

DD has been singing in tune from about 2 yrs. Started with "Twinkle twinkle" ("teekouu teekouu", rather ) and now picks up songs from tv and even sings the tune of my cell phone when it rings.

I was curious because my mother says I used to sing in tune (well, hum, I guess) when I was only a couple of months old. The legend goes that whichever song she was singing to get me to sleep, I would sing it back to her after a couple of nights. Not sure if I believe it

This isn't something else for new mothers to stress about is it?

Why stress?

both mine have been able to sing in tune since they could sing at all (around a year old, possibly).

It just struck me as a funny question...like it was another 'benchmark' for mums to measure their children against...maybe I've missed the point!

DD2 - has been in tune since she started singing.
DD1 - sometimes manages in key, sometimes not, can't "tune in" to the key someone else is singing in. She's 5.5

DH is tone deaf. I have a good singing voice - did lots of choir singing before kids.

Am beginning to wonder whether DD1 just takes after daddy!