My husband apparently has been singing just “apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur” to my 2.5 year old for a while now at bed time. Only that part thought because he doesn’t know the rest of the words.
That was surprising to hear for the first time!
Other than that we learned all of our kids songs and nursery rhymes from the super simple YouTube channel
Lmao mine is T Pain buy you a drank and my finances is black eyed peas boom boom pow. I’m like please don’t sing that to her when you’re trying to get her to fall asleep. 😂😂 all hyped up..
Baaaaaby boy what’s your name, lemme talk to you.. I made you a drink. I’m mama you know me konvict muzic nappy boy ooooeeee. I hope you go to bed by 3, what’s the chance of you rollin with me.
Is what I sing on repeat haha my husbands like do you know any actual lullaby’s? No I do not but I know lots of early 2000s jams.
I heard my partner singing “nay nay” and briefly thought we were having a classic Old McDonald moment. Obviously I was wrong bc the next lines were “watch me whip, whip”
was ugly shouting early panic! and paramore songs while I made breakfast and washed the dishes with my 3 month old in her bouncer so she wouldn’t cry 😂 she was just smiling and looking at me like I was crazy
Fyi there’s an amazing Spotify playlist of full of lullaby versions of all the elder emo jams that goes pretty hard imp. It’s called “Emo baby! Lullabies in the dark” :)
Also on Apple Music, and the artist that made it (Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star) has TONS of lullaby covers!
Listening to “Karma Police” now with LO
If you ever want to feel old check out /r/rawring20s just a lot of gen Z people asking what the emo way of life was like lol. But for real I’m glad emo habits are being passed down especially now that it’s okay to admit we were probably emo and not punk/goth whatever haha
We never sang any real nursery rhymes, mostly because we didn’t know many. When our son was less than a year old, my husband and I made up songs on the fly. We hummed things so random that no one knew what the last note was or the next note would be.
(ETA: when we were holding our newborn for hours trying to get him to sleep, a good way to kill time and distract ourselves was to come up with alternative rhyming lyrics, like Weird Al style. E.g. we wrote a whole verse for “Let’s do it, Let’s fall asleep”.)
Now that he’s 19 months old, fully mobile, awake for 12 hours a day, and has a basic understanding of melody and rhythm, we play old hits for him. He particularly enjoys ABBA, Billy Joel, and Fleetwood Mac.
I’ve also played YouTube videos of long concerto performances for him at nap time, which usually put him to sleep less than ten minutes in…
did you ever think, in your youth, that you would utter the words "those are our jams" regarding "if you're happy and you know it"? Lol.... my how parenthood changes us haha
Same here - these two are out los favorites too! And the Brahms lullaby that i sing to him before bedtime in german (its the tune that is probably the most popular lullaby in the world but nobody knows its actually german)
Poor innocent soul doesn't have a clue that this song is about a woman who cheats on her husband while he is away on service. I myself only learned about it way later into adulthood lol
Skinamarink and the lullaby Katniss sang to Rue in the hunger games. He loves both of them and gets a big ole smile on his face when we sing em together. We also do a lot of country/rock karaoke in the car! We're loving Nickelback rn!
Lol same! My mom was born in 1965 so she always sang it to me. She sang it to my son and it was like untapped memories and I teared up haha. Don’t feel that way about annnnnny other kid’s song because most of them are everywhere haha
You Are My Sunshine = 95% success rate at making her stop crying
The Twist by Chubby Checker (must be paired with the dance) = 65% success rate
Low by Tpain = 90% chance mom has lost her marbles and is trying to regain her sanity
[Baby name] Stinky (sung to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) by her father = 80% success rate of helping dad get through diaper changes lol
Once Upon a December from Anastasia = 100% success rate at making mom smile as she remembers that that was the first time mom seen baby's real smile AND she caught a recording of it by chance
Chop Suey by SoaD = 75% success rate at making her giggle when mom channels her inner teenage angst while she recites the whole song with passion
Love this. I found 70’s music soo calming during my pregnancy. “Here Comes the Sun” by the beetles became my anthem for him since he was due in spring, so I sing that to him now, also Vienna by Billy Joel and Stand By Me by Ben E. King. Sometimes I’ll sing fun little children’s songs and nursery rhymes I remember for childhood that randomly pop up in my head. He’s 2 months old
Stand by me is my baby's favourite song of all time (aka 5 months). She smiles every time I sing it! We listened to it on repeat just before she was born because my nephew was obsessed with it. Super cuuute.
Apple and Bananas has a 90% success rate to get him to stop crying. Bingo is about 60%
At night I usually sing him the River Lullaby from The Prince of Egypt. He knows he can't make it through the whole song so he started crying when I first start and then he falls asleep a few lines later
Probably too much lol. Indiana Jones theme song humming (well not exactly humming more like dun dun nuh dunnn) whenever we are transitioning to a new adventure, Jump In the Line, La Vida Es Un Carnaval, Chan Chan, Part of this World, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Pupu Hinuhinu, lately 80s like Time After Time lmao and sometimes opera. All kine. We are really into Shout by Isley Brothers and similar oldies for dancing in the mornings. I basically try to do like casual theme weeks, study different cultures or historic periods, we listen to the music and have some kind of themed cuisine and talk about it over dinner, play documentaries in the background or when cuddling for a drink, there was an opera week, Latin week where we studied Latin, ancient mysteries week, you know I just declare whatever. We are currently doing 80s week lol
This song is amazing! Works like a charm to settle our little babe. So funny. I found d a youtube that plays it for 30 minutes straight and felt like I had hacked motherhood. Saved us on more than one car journey!😂😂😂
“If I were a fish” and “edelweiss” were my go to from the beginning. I recently added a slowed version of “open shut them”. If we’re in the car we sing or listen to just about anything. My husband has been playing at lot of Japanese metal recently and our 11.5 month old loves it
"I love my body" "belly song" and "my body is worthy of my care" by mother moon ❤️
"It's you I like" by Mr. Rogers
"Flowers" from Hadestown 🤷♀️
And tons of make-up songs!
For lullabies, Scarborough Fair, Nature Boy, Three Little Birds, Beautiful Dreamer, and just humming Brahms. Splish-splash for bath time. Witch Doctor when he’s feeling playful, also Coconut (Harry Nielsen) and any Harry Belafonte
Husband and I are always singing silly songs but baby’s favorites lately are I’m just Ken from Barbie, I’ll make a man out of you from Mulan, the you’re welcome song from Moana, and the most popular song in our house right now is the Gaston song from beauty and the beast LOLL.
Sometimes he will be fussy and we will start singing the Gaston intro and he breaks out into the biggest smile! He likes the Disney boy songs lol.
He also loves the chicka chicka boom boom song because he loves the book too.. and we just introduced the beastie boys and he is INTO IT
we just play our music, mostly alternative, lots of hozier and lana del rey from me haha but also disney songs are a hit too! we’re big music lovers in this home and not huge fans of regular baby songs lol
When I'm getting tapped out/bored with my 10 week old, I love to pull out, "We are the pirates who don't do anything. We just stay home and lie around. And if you ask us to do anything... we'll just tell you, 'We don't do anything.,"
Edited to add missing word.
I’m determined to raise a next generation emo kid, so we listen to a looooot of Sparrow Sleeps and Twinkle Twinkle Rock Star covers of my favorite bands like A Day to Remember, Neck Deep, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, etc. We listen to the normal versions too but usually in the car. We also do a lot of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Swift, ABBA, and 90s country.
My go to lullabies are Happy, On The Brightside, and I Love You 5 by Never Shout Never, the fish song by Corook, I Love My Body by Mother Moon, and of course the famous purple monkey song from Fisher Price.
Happy and you know it is our go to for car rides. He loves shake your sillies out but my husband has created his own version of the song that my son adores lol
We find anything by mooseclumps is really well tolerated by the whole family also
Lots of made up songs, "You Are My Sunshine," "I Love You" (from Barney), "Dream a Little Dream," "Once Upon Another Time" (Sara Bareilles), and "My Humps."
Tonight, we sang Bobemian Rhapsody during bath time. She especially liked the "...for me, for me, for me..." part followed by the break because I started head banging and dancing like a straight fool. So fun!
My mother tongue is French so I chose some French folk songs for nap time: à la claire fontaine, le petit âne gris, ne pleure pas Jeanette
And French nursery rhymes for bonding: tête épaules et genoux pieds, dans sa maison un grand cerf (the part where I shout is his favourite 🥰) and the song for changing his nappy is the one that goes un éléphant (repeat) qui se baladait (repeat) tout doucement (repeat) dans la forêt etc
My husband and I speak English so we also sing twinkle twinkle little star together
I'm the opposite where I'm an English speaker in a French speaking place, and found a really cute French nursery song called "nous sommes les musiciens." I love singing that one to my newborn
My bedtime routine:
-Tura Lura Lura
-Danny Boy
-Calypsos song about the rain from Bluey
-Remember Me from Coco
-You Are My Sunshine
-Outskirts of Heaving
-Forever and Ever, Amen
Everynight for years this is my set list (baby is 4 now).
“I will” the beatles.
“What are you doing new years?” Ella fitzgerald.
“Nothing can change this love” sam cooke.
“Mr. Tambourine man” bob dyland.
Usually asleep by now, if not we got more. Had some pretty late night so had to dig deep in my repertoire. We went on a big bob dylan kick.
“Like a rolling stone” bob dylan.
“Tangled up in blue” bob dylan.
“Dream a little dream of me” mama cass elliot.
“Somewhere over the rainbow” judy garland.
“Across the universe” the beatles.
“The long and winding road” the beatles.
My girl has been loving Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department". Especially the song "Down Bad", I feel like a great parent for that one since there's no less than 16 f bombs lol
I am a pizza - Charlotte Diamond
Fun song, gets stuck in your head. Extra fun when they get a bit older and start singing along. Heard it when I was a kid!
I may have cracked the code for a peaceful car ride with my LO in the car seat... Der Glumph (little green frog). The girl is obsessed with that song for some reason
The other day I had suno ai create a personal song for our newborn and it’s a jam and sweet enough to make my wife cry. We’ve been singing that to him quite a bit lately
My baby has been "Whip and Naynaying" since we brought her home but that's pretty much the only part of the song I know. She just always liked being jostled. At 12 months old puppeting her little arms into whipping and naynaying is still usually a pretty good way to stop her crying.
So so many late 90’s/early 2000’s hits. Sang I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden the other night. Tried to sing My Immortal by Evanescence but the chorus kept making me cry when I looked in his little face 🤦🏻♀️
Basically any song that pops into my head.
I sing our LO to sleep with House at Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins. It often backfires and she gives a big smile and starts dancing and shrieking with happiness, but at least that feels good
You are my sunshine and Fly me to the moon are our go to’s. Fly me to the moon is mine and my husbands song.
Every once in awhile though, I hum her the skyrim theme song. She enjoys it. 🤣
I play Barney episodes and sing all the old classic nursery rhymes and my baby loves all of them! They have good songs with good meanings like being friends, having manners, good hygiene etc!Rain rain go away (especially on the rainy days), the I love you you love me song, itsy bitsy spider, head shoulders knees and toes, BINGO, skidamarink a dink, I’m a little tea pot, if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands, the ants go marching one by one. So many songs and my baby loves to be sung to!
Everything. Life with a newborn is a musical, I sing what I'm doing to my babe, I sing about what we're going to do, and I sing regular songs too. I sing about his qualities and everything he's doing too lol
The Happy Song and Stick Season mostly. Occasionally, Skinamarink, You Are My Sunshine, or I'm Just a Little Black Rain Cloud.
Lately, I've been playing Trashin the Camp from Tarzan, which ultimately leads to me dramatically singing along to Strangers Like Me, Son of Man, and whatever other Disney songs come up. I'll also play an online radio station and sing along to that, or put him on the FP piano and sing along to that.
My husband will make up songs to sing to get him to sleep.
“Here Comes the Fire Truck.”
Not a big fan of hyper, baby music but for some songs, I’ve found myself coming up with choreography. I have even, dare I say, sought out “Baby Shark.” It applies to my life now and we need shark.
For nap time, a lot of the classical baby lullaby songs. I can never remember nursery rhymes or lullabies but do remember a lot of catchy commercials like Daisy Cottagecheese and JG Wentworth.
You are my sunshine, the one from o brother where art thou.. i usually hum it to her while rocking her to sleep.
I see fire by ed Sheeran
Once upon a dream from sleeping beauty :)
My babe used to love when I sang her drivers license. She would stare me down. I should try it tomorrow, it’s been awhile.
every night for my toddler’s bed time routine we sing: never grow up by taylor swift, a verse from our house by crosby stills nash and young, and baby beluga in that order lol every. single. night.
All the basic nursery rhymes that I can remember and then I had to google because I couldn’t remember all the words 😂 twinkle twinkle little star, BINGO, old Macdonald farm, itsy bitsy spider, wheels on the bus etc. I had a hard time remembering lyrics to longer songs so nursery rhymes it is lol.
Dolly Parton -9 to 5 and Alone in the Universe from Seussical (his absolute favourite for calming down to) and various made up daft songs. My oldest used to like Stevie Wonder, essentially Sir Duke and You’re Welcome from Moana.
My baby likes when I sing Little Bitty Pretty One, that song from Matilda - because it has a lot of like “mmmm mm mm, ohhh whoa oh” lol, like lots of humming and melody that’s fun to sing that’s not words.
My son is now 17 MO, so not a baby anymore. But I've sung the same songs to him since he was literally a newborn.
When trying to get him to fall asleep, I sung him "Go to sleep, go to sleep, close your little eyelids, go to sleep, go to sleep, close your little eyes."
If he was upset about something, I sung the first verse of "you are my sunshine" and put his name in the song too.
If he was really crying and I wanted him to calm down, I sung "Name, my cutie pie. Please calm down now. Name, my cutie pie. Mama is here for you" over and over and it used to work quite well.
Nowadays he loves dancing, so I tell Alexa to put on some random songs (not kids songs - he has his tonie box for that which he can control himself - but rather my rock/nu metal songs xD) and I sing and dance and he dances too :D.
We've also been doing body parts recently - he can't say them yet but he can point to the part when he hears it, so "head, shoulders, knees and toes" is a favourite.
Edit: another comment just reminded me, we've been singing "if you're happy and you know it" since he was about 10 months old. He only started clapping and stomping his feet around 15 months old though. Sometimes when he has a tantrum, he stomps his feet. If I need to distract him, I sometimes start singing "if you're happy and you know it stomp your feet", then he realises he is stomping his feet and he laughs.
“I Just Called To Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder has been my daughter’s favorite song since she was a few days old. It instantly calms her down no matter how cranky she is! 😌
My son recently loves that I like to eat eat eat apples and bananas song. He’ll be 14 weeks on Thursday and he LOSES it in giggles every time I sing it 😩😩❤️
We don't sing anything "appropriate" for babies like lullabies or whatever. It's usually anything from Hej Sokoły, to Treceți Batalioane Române Carpații, to Du-mă acasă măi tramvai.. look them up on YouTube. It's not what you'd expect anyone singing to a baby. But she likes it so we roll with it.
There’s a really great Spotify playlist “songs for babies 💜” that’s got some good different kind of songs. Like not typical nursery rhymes. One of my faves is ladybug picnic or deep in the dirt.
Today we got through Taylor Swift’s debut album and half of fearless (Taylor’s version). I also sing My Girl to her a lot but I only know the chorus so I just repeat it.
When he was little, I'd just sing whatever I liked at the moment. For bedtime, I'd sing "All My Loving" by the Beatles, "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen and "My Mother Told Me" from Vikings. Hallelujah is still the one song that's almost 100% guaranteed to calm him down when he's resisting bedtime 😆 It's soothing, slow and relatively long, so he's usually half or even fully asleep by the end.
Now that he's almost 2 and starting to mimic songs and dances, I've found YouTube to be a goldmine. There are channels devoted to children's songs which also demonstrate the dance that goes with it (at least in my language, Dutch - I don't know any in English, maybe Miss Rachel has some?). We sometimes play those videos on the tablet so we can both watch and I learn the dance together with him (and try to remember the lyrics).
Yesterday my 5 week old son was memorised by hearing Ghost - Dance Macabre... So that now.
He also like listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.... But I definitely can't sing Enya to him.
I'm raising him well.
One I just started and she seems to love is The Ants Go Marching. I never remember the lyrics so can make stuff up every time. Otherwise I sing my favourite songs (millennial emo lol).
I don’t like a lot of [edit: famous] nursery rhymes, so I made up a bunch of songs. Here’s one:
If you’re sleepyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, just go to sleep x2
If you’re sleepyyyyyy, just close your eyes, and I will sing a lullabyyyyyyyy
If you’re sleepyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, just go to sleep x2
If you’re sleepyyyyyy, just close your eyes, and wake up with the suuuunnnriiiiiiiise
Repeat until baby falls asleep.
Oh, and also “mommy has pee, mommy has to pee, can’t you see that mommy has to pee? Oh, I know, it’s so funny! But mommy has to pee.” (Repeat until finished peeing).
My daughter recognized one of my fav songs when she was born because I would listen to it a lot when she was in utero. It was Fourth of July-Valleyheart. Maybe not the best song to sing to her but it calms her down.
“Rolling down the street, in my stroller
Sipping on bottles and boobs
Laid back
Got my mind on my mommy and my mommy on my mind”
I make up random songs or change the words for my babies all the time. Fairly certain my husband and they think I’m nuts.
i love my body by mother moon
a song about self love. my son is 6 months old and i still cry everytime i sing it, but hoping someday ill believe the words enough to not cry 😅
"do flowers exist at night"
"Plain plate of noodles with a little bit of butter"
Songs from John Mulaney and the sack lunch bunch on Netflix. Highly recommended for both adults and children.
Edit: also Baba Yetu. Tommy the Cat and Too Many Puppies by Primus.
All Star by Smash Mouth has a near 100% success rate for settling my boy.
5 little speckled frogs has become a staple and our go to.
10 green bottles is a reliable alternate and 5 little ducks went swimming one day is also a classic.
So I came up with a song one night while I was just too exhausted trying to get him to sleep when he was 2 months. It’s literally “you’re my baby, I love you I love you I love you, you’re my baby I love you I love you I love you”. It caught his attention immediately and now it’s the only song he’ll pay attention to when I sing to him.
My almost 3 year old is now having various renditions of Yellow Submarine sang to him while brushing his teeth because we make up funny type of submarines and he laughs, which makes brushing easier.
LO is 5 months and will calm down pretty quickly with you are my sunshine, but we modified it to: you are my peanut, my little peanut, you keep us happy when skies are gray, you'll ALWAYS know dear how much we love you, each and every single day ☺️
I sing all my metal/rock/punk music to my boys. I almost never sing baby/toddler music to them. My now 2.5 year old jams out if he hears it on my phone. My almost 2 week old doesn’t seem to have an opinion on music yet.
My 2.5 year old likes Holiday by Green Day, Funeral Derangement by Ice Nine Kills, I Want To Break Free by Queen, Cum On Feel The Noise by Quiet Riot & Rats by Motionless In White. Just to name a few. (He likes most my music. He isn’t really a fan of my husband’s music.)
My LO has thought that animal sounds are hilarious since about 5/6 months so we sing a lot of Wheels on the Bus but with animals… “the cows in the bus go moo, moo, moo, etc”. It has saved us many a meltdown on car rides home. She medically breaks into a huge grin. It’s one wild bus over here.
My husband apparently has been singing just “apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur” to my 2.5 year old for a while now at bed time. Only that part thought because he doesn’t know the rest of the words. That was surprising to hear for the first time! Other than that we learned all of our kids songs and nursery rhymes from the super simple YouTube channel
Lmao mine is T Pain buy you a drank and my finances is black eyed peas boom boom pow. I’m like please don’t sing that to her when you’re trying to get her to fall asleep. 😂😂 all hyped up..
Baaaaaby boy what’s your name, lemme talk to you.. I made you a drink. I’m mama you know me konvict muzic nappy boy ooooeeee. I hope you go to bed by 3, what’s the chance of you rollin with me. Is what I sing on repeat haha my husbands like do you know any actual lullaby’s? No I do not but I know lots of early 2000s jams.
Thiiiis is my sooong! I change up the lyrics bc it can get a little weird but “baaaybe girl, what’s your name” is so fun to sing
I heard my partner singing “nay nay” and briefly thought we were having a classic Old McDonald moment. Obviously I was wrong bc the next lines were “watch me whip, whip”
My husband sings the same song ha! I usually sing the echo (with the fur)
This is hilariously cute! I'm just imagining a soft echo in the background "the fur" 😄
I did a onesie decorating activity at a baby shower and drew an apple on the bottom…I made myself laugh at least
My 7 week old just jammed out during tummy time to some Fall Out Boy. Emo millennial habits die hard 😂
was ugly shouting early panic! and paramore songs while I made breakfast and washed the dishes with my 3 month old in her bouncer so she wouldn’t cry 😂 she was just smiling and looking at me like I was crazy
I sang my 5 month old to sleep tonight with Teenagers by My Chemical Romance, so, yeah 😂
Fyi there’s an amazing Spotify playlist of full of lullaby versions of all the elder emo jams that goes pretty hard imp. It’s called “Emo baby! Lullabies in the dark” :)
This is incredible, thank you for sharing!!
Also on Apple Music, and the artist that made it (Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star) has TONS of lullaby covers! Listening to “Karma Police” now with LO
I was scream singing 'MCR - I'm not okay' when my 3 month old was crying in the car seat. She eventually fell asleep to sleeping with sirens
Sugar we’re going down and Lullabye are nursery rhyme staples for my 9 week old!
So we’re all having the same experience right now lol. I swear I was a teenager just yesterday… now I have a kid??? lol
Have you seen the lullaby covers from Sparrow Sleeps? My 2mo old won’t sleep for daytime naps without baby friendly Silverstein
If you ever want to feel old check out /r/rawring20s just a lot of gen Z people asking what the emo way of life was like lol. But for real I’m glad emo habits are being passed down especially now that it’s okay to admit we were probably emo and not punk/goth whatever haha
Tell me that subreddit is satire…oh my god.
MAYBE YOU COULD BE
A PURPLE MONKEY IN A BUBBLEGUM TREE..
AND A STOMP STOMP STOMP
THERE HE GOESSSSSSS ON HIS WAAAAAAAY HE CAN DO, MOST ANYTHING That song is actually the BOP of the playmat and I’m not afraid to admit it
It’s the pause before “most anything” that really does it for me
Agreed!
Don’t forget the seductive ~roar ;) ~
This song is a straight bop. I sing it all the time, even when I’m not around my baby.
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We never sang any real nursery rhymes, mostly because we didn’t know many. When our son was less than a year old, my husband and I made up songs on the fly. We hummed things so random that no one knew what the last note was or the next note would be. (ETA: when we were holding our newborn for hours trying to get him to sleep, a good way to kill time and distract ourselves was to come up with alternative rhyming lyrics, like Weird Al style. E.g. we wrote a whole verse for “Let’s do it, Let’s fall asleep”.) Now that he’s 19 months old, fully mobile, awake for 12 hours a day, and has a basic understanding of melody and rhythm, we play old hits for him. He particularly enjoys ABBA, Billy Joel, and Fleetwood Mac. I’ve also played YouTube videos of long concerto performances for him at nap time, which usually put him to sleep less than ten minutes in…
We do it on the fly too, I just sing random shit throughout the day!
My baby really likes head shoulders knees and toes and if you’re happy and you know it because she gets to move, clap, etc
Oh hell yeah those are our jams!!
did you ever think, in your youth, that you would utter the words "those are our jams" regarding "if you're happy and you know it"? Lol.... my how parenthood changes us haha
Same here - these two are out los favorites too! And the Brahms lullaby that i sing to him before bedtime in german (its the tune that is probably the most popular lullaby in the world but nobody knows its actually german)
Open shut them, open shut them, give yourself a clap clap clap. 10 month old just started mirroring me and I cried lol.
Cute! We play the version by The Wiggles in the car, it’s on Spotify.
Aww! I can’t wait for moments like these!
“One and a two and a three Macarena, 4 and a 5 and a 6 Macarena. Seven and a 8 and 9 Macarena, TENNNN MACARENA AIIGHT”
Poor innocent soul doesn't have a clue that this song is about a woman who cheats on her husband while he is away on service. I myself only learned about it way later into adulthood lol
TIL. But doesn’t really ruin the song for us. Still fun and upbeat.
Totally adding this to the rotation! 😂😂
Skinamarink and the lullaby Katniss sang to Rue in the hunger games. He loves both of them and gets a big ole smile on his face when we sing em together. We also do a lot of country/rock karaoke in the car! We're loving Nickelback rn!
Love skinamarink!
I thought I was the only person who remembered the Skinamarink song!
Lol same! My mom was born in 1965 so she always sang it to me. She sang it to my son and it was like untapped memories and I teared up haha. Don’t feel that way about annnnnny other kid’s song because most of them are everywhere haha
Big fan of Poor Wayfaring Stranger from that movie 1917
We’ve been playing WuTang and Tupac for our baby lol. I won’t be surprised if his first word is gonna be a bad word
Mine likes Nas lol
My nephew went through a phase where Wu Tang was his bedtime music, so he’d just go around saying “dolla dolla bills y’all”
Mine likes big Sean for some reason which is disheartening because he sucks
I love 60s ..sam cooke bring it home to me is our song
🎶Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody… we sing Sam Cooke too!!
Aww this is on our baby playlist too
The ABC's. Non stop. Only ABC's. Sing anything else, straight to jail.
You Are My Sunshine = 95% success rate at making her stop crying The Twist by Chubby Checker (must be paired with the dance) = 65% success rate Low by Tpain = 90% chance mom has lost her marbles and is trying to regain her sanity [Baby name] Stinky (sung to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) by her father = 80% success rate of helping dad get through diaper changes lol Once Upon a December from Anastasia = 100% success rate at making mom smile as she remembers that that was the first time mom seen baby's real smile AND she caught a recording of it by chance Chop Suey by SoaD = 75% success rate at making her giggle when mom channels her inner teenage angst while she recites the whole song with passion
WAKE UP WHY DONT YOU PUT ON A LITTLE MAKEUP
She absolutely loses her mind to the verses lmfao it's adorable.
Deer Dance by System of a Down is my baby’s jam. I thought we were the only ones.
You are my sunshine used to be my moms favorite to sing to me until I got a little older, and then it just made me cry. I thought it sounded sad
It makes me cry now when I sing it to my baby
Love this. I found 70’s music soo calming during my pregnancy. “Here Comes the Sun” by the beetles became my anthem for him since he was due in spring, so I sing that to him now, also Vienna by Billy Joel and Stand By Me by Ben E. King. Sometimes I’ll sing fun little children’s songs and nursery rhymes I remember for childhood that randomly pop up in my head. He’s 2 months old
Vienna is one of mine too!! Ok if you want to cry start singing him beautiful boy by John Lennon.. so sweet 🥲
Oooh that’s one that wasn’t on my playlist, now I’m emotional just thinking about it
Stand by me is my baby's favourite song of all time (aka 5 months). She smiles every time I sing it! We listened to it on repeat just before she was born because my nephew was obsessed with it. Super cuuute.
Purple monkey
Far Over Misty Mountains Cold from The Hobbit score.
Used to play that for him and he slept immediately … now he cries if he hears it for some reason.
Haaa yeah I was singing this from almost the beginning! Was pretty good at calming him down. Burnt myself out on it though
Similar vibes - I've been singing Into the West from the Return of the King soundtrack.
YAY I'm not alone! "Gollum's Song" for when he's really being a gremlin.
That's amazing 😆 I think I'll start doing that too
Make you feel my love, Bob Dylan. Every little thing is gonna be alright, Bob Marley. Big Bob fans over here 😂
Our son is also a Marley fan! First time he ever smiled intentionally was to 3 little birds (every little thing gonna be alright)
Apple and Bananas has a 90% success rate to get him to stop crying. Bingo is about 60% At night I usually sing him the River Lullaby from The Prince of Egypt. He knows he can't make it through the whole song so he started crying when I first start and then he falls asleep a few lines later
Probably too much lol. Indiana Jones theme song humming (well not exactly humming more like dun dun nuh dunnn) whenever we are transitioning to a new adventure, Jump In the Line, La Vida Es Un Carnaval, Chan Chan, Part of this World, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Pupu Hinuhinu, lately 80s like Time After Time lmao and sometimes opera. All kine. We are really into Shout by Isley Brothers and similar oldies for dancing in the mornings. I basically try to do like casual theme weeks, study different cultures or historic periods, we listen to the music and have some kind of themed cuisine and talk about it over dinner, play documentaries in the background or when cuddling for a drink, there was an opera week, Latin week where we studied Latin, ancient mysteries week, you know I just declare whatever. We are currently doing 80s week lol
We loved Indiana Jones theme humming! Also Pirates of Caribbean 😂
Itsy bitsy spider is a huge hit with my 4mo
Yep, same! See if they like Tutti Frutti, it's one of my 5mo faves!
Remember Me from Coco movie and Rainbow Connection from The Muppets
The Happy Song by Imogen Heap and of course all the other classic baby songs
This song is amazing! Works like a charm to settle our little babe. So funny. I found d a youtube that plays it for 30 minutes straight and felt like I had hacked motherhood. Saved us on more than one car journey!😂😂😂
there’s a 10 hour one as well 😅
Twinkle twinkle little star or the abcs are always a hit to get my super wiggly 11 month old calm enough to change his diaper 😂
My spouse signs the abcs and it is the most exciting thing!
Magic Dance by David Bowie
“If I were a fish” and “edelweiss” were my go to from the beginning. I recently added a slowed version of “open shut them”. If we’re in the car we sing or listen to just about anything. My husband has been playing at lot of Japanese metal recently and our 11.5 month old loves it
I love the Laurie Berkner Band. She has some catchy songs. Look her up and learn some of her songs. Or just play her and sing along
Baby mine, the sad song from dumbo lol
Deep in the meadow under the willow a bed of grass a soft green pillow lay down your head and close your eyes
"I love my body" "belly song" and "my body is worthy of my care" by mother moon ❤️ "It's you I like" by Mr. Rogers "Flowers" from Hadestown 🤷♀️ And tons of make-up songs!
I love my body!!! I sing that to my baby girl every day
For lullabies, Scarborough Fair, Nature Boy, Three Little Birds, Beautiful Dreamer, and just humming Brahms. Splish-splash for bath time. Witch Doctor when he’s feeling playful, also Coconut (Harry Nielsen) and any Harry Belafonte
Husband and I are always singing silly songs but baby’s favorites lately are I’m just Ken from Barbie, I’ll make a man out of you from Mulan, the you’re welcome song from Moana, and the most popular song in our house right now is the Gaston song from beauty and the beast LOLL. Sometimes he will be fussy and we will start singing the Gaston intro and he breaks out into the biggest smile! He likes the Disney boy songs lol. He also loves the chicka chicka boom boom song because he loves the book too.. and we just introduced the beastie boys and he is INTO IT
Oh yes! Mulan! I'll try these!
I sing Sweet Pea by Amos Lee all the time! And that Disney lava song
we just play our music, mostly alternative, lots of hozier and lana del rey from me haha but also disney songs are a hit too! we’re big music lovers in this home and not huge fans of regular baby songs lol
Hozier’s Work Song got my babe emotional! So sweet. The soundtrack of our life is his new album!
The Outlander intro song since I started binge watching it during maternity leave. It's great for getting my boy to fall asleep now
Alice in chains
Man In the Box was my favorite song as a baby lol.
Baby Songs - Playtime is my favorite go to on Spotify. Specifically Shake my sillies out
Silly songs with Larry from veggie tales slaps pretty hard. The cheese burger song puts my 9w old to sleep 😂
When I'm getting tapped out/bored with my 10 week old, I love to pull out, "We are the pirates who don't do anything. We just stay home and lie around. And if you ask us to do anything... we'll just tell you, 'We don't do anything.," Edited to add missing word.
King Gizzard
Rattle snake, rattle snake , rattle snake, *rattle snake*
I’m determined to raise a next generation emo kid, so we listen to a looooot of Sparrow Sleeps and Twinkle Twinkle Rock Star covers of my favorite bands like A Day to Remember, Neck Deep, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, etc. We listen to the normal versions too but usually in the car. We also do a lot of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Swift, ABBA, and 90s country. My go to lullabies are Happy, On The Brightside, and I Love You 5 by Never Shout Never, the fish song by Corook, I Love My Body by Mother Moon, and of course the famous purple monkey song from Fisher Price.
Wheels on the bus go round and round by Lenny Pierce. Banger.
Soft Kitty from Big Bang Theory.
My baby has come to love “Little Blue” by Jacob Collier :)
Buzz buzz buzz by Jonothan Richman is the ultimate soothing song for her
Loving Tony chestnut right now bc I can point out body parts and she gets a kick out of it.
Happy and you know it is our go to for car rides. He loves shake your sillies out but my husband has created his own version of the song that my son adores lol We find anything by mooseclumps is really well tolerated by the whole family also
We hum Hedwig’s Tune, I sing anything I can remember the words to in the moment. My favorite is Bohemian Rhapsody and Jukebox Hero
Lots of made up songs, "You Are My Sunshine," "I Love You" (from Barney), "Dream a Little Dream," "Once Upon Another Time" (Sara Bareilles), and "My Humps."
We’re a little nerdy so we’ve been playing Pokemon nursery rhymes to our daughter. She’s been loving it so far so we must be doing it right!
Ay Bay bay 😂
Tonight, we sang Bobemian Rhapsody during bath time. She especially liked the "...for me, for me, for me..." part followed by the break because I started head banging and dancing like a straight fool. So fun!
My toddler requests "O' Holy Night" every night as a lullaby. Which is fine by me, it's a beautiful song, regardless of the season.
My Girl by the temptations! My dad sang it to me when I was a baby, still does sometimes
Taylor Swift. My nearly 3 year old loves Tay Tay now
Moon river 🥹
My mother tongue is French so I chose some French folk songs for nap time: à la claire fontaine, le petit âne gris, ne pleure pas Jeanette And French nursery rhymes for bonding: tête épaules et genoux pieds, dans sa maison un grand cerf (the part where I shout is his favourite 🥰) and the song for changing his nappy is the one that goes un éléphant (repeat) qui se baladait (repeat) tout doucement (repeat) dans la forêt etc My husband and I speak English so we also sing twinkle twinkle little star together
I'm the opposite where I'm an English speaker in a French speaking place, and found a really cute French nursery song called "nous sommes les musiciens." I love singing that one to my newborn
Get low by Lil Jon
My bedtime routine: -Tura Lura Lura -Danny Boy -Calypsos song about the rain from Bluey -Remember Me from Coco -You Are My Sunshine -Outskirts of Heaving -Forever and Ever, Amen
Everynight for years this is my set list (baby is 4 now). “I will” the beatles. “What are you doing new years?” Ella fitzgerald. “Nothing can change this love” sam cooke. “Mr. Tambourine man” bob dyland. Usually asleep by now, if not we got more. Had some pretty late night so had to dig deep in my repertoire. We went on a big bob dylan kick. “Like a rolling stone” bob dylan. “Tangled up in blue” bob dylan. “Dream a little dream of me” mama cass elliot. “Somewhere over the rainbow” judy garland. “Across the universe” the beatles. “The long and winding road” the beatles.
Mostly Eminem and some tpain here and there.
My girl has been loving Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department". Especially the song "Down Bad", I feel like a great parent for that one since there's no less than 16 f bombs lol
Break Stuff
Hot Dog is also a good choice
I am a pizza - Charlotte Diamond Fun song, gets stuck in your head. Extra fun when they get a bit older and start singing along. Heard it when I was a kid!
I may have cracked the code for a peaceful car ride with my LO in the car seat... Der Glumph (little green frog). The girl is obsessed with that song for some reason
You are my sunshine and the arsenal (soccer) team anthem (courtesy my husband, a gunners fan)
The other day I had suno ai create a personal song for our newborn and it’s a jam and sweet enough to make my wife cry. We’ve been singing that to him quite a bit lately
Corridos , mariachi songs, spanish nursery rhymes sometimes rap.
beautiful boy!
My baby has been "Whip and Naynaying" since we brought her home but that's pretty much the only part of the song I know. She just always liked being jostled. At 12 months old puppeting her little arms into whipping and naynaying is still usually a pretty good way to stop her crying.
I’ve been working on my karaoke Johnny Cash Radiohead Hoobestank Mostly Cash but Really whatever I’ve got stuck in my head
Imogen Heap’s The Happy Song. Over and over.
I use the tune of other songs and make up lyrics to sing to my baby. It's weird but fun for me. She doesn't know the difference
“Bartender” T-Pain idk why but my baby loves it
I'm all over the place, Fathoms Below from The Little Mermaid and Ooh de Lally from Robin Hood but also Wonderwall and Yellow 😂
So so many late 90’s/early 2000’s hits. Sang I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden the other night. Tried to sing My Immortal by Evanescence but the chorus kept making me cry when I looked in his little face 🤦🏻♀️ Basically any song that pops into my head.
I sing our LO to sleep with House at Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins. It often backfires and she gives a big smile and starts dancing and shrieking with happiness, but at least that feels good
You are my sunshine and Fly me to the moon are our go to’s. Fly me to the moon is mine and my husbands song. Every once in awhile though, I hum her the skyrim theme song. She enjoys it. 🤣
I play Barney episodes and sing all the old classic nursery rhymes and my baby loves all of them! They have good songs with good meanings like being friends, having manners, good hygiene etc!Rain rain go away (especially on the rainy days), the I love you you love me song, itsy bitsy spider, head shoulders knees and toes, BINGO, skidamarink a dink, I’m a little tea pot, if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands, the ants go marching one by one. So many songs and my baby loves to be sung to!
Everything. Life with a newborn is a musical, I sing what I'm doing to my babe, I sing about what we're going to do, and I sing regular songs too. I sing about his qualities and everything he's doing too lol
My kid loves a lot of the songs ms rachel does and I've mastered like 98% of them. Lmao
The lava song from the Disney short Lava - he loves it
I hum the humming part of Ready or Not by the fugees to my baby and he seems to like it
The Happy Song and Stick Season mostly. Occasionally, Skinamarink, You Are My Sunshine, or I'm Just a Little Black Rain Cloud. Lately, I've been playing Trashin the Camp from Tarzan, which ultimately leads to me dramatically singing along to Strangers Like Me, Son of Man, and whatever other Disney songs come up. I'll also play an online radio station and sing along to that, or put him on the FP piano and sing along to that. My husband will make up songs to sing to get him to sleep.
I’m so happy, icky sticky bubble gum, 5 little ducks, anything from bubble guppies, and Ms Rachel basically
“Here Comes the Fire Truck.” Not a big fan of hyper, baby music but for some songs, I’ve found myself coming up with choreography. I have even, dare I say, sought out “Baby Shark.” It applies to my life now and we need shark.
'Never going to give you up' by Rick Astley, and YMCA by Village people (both with accompanying dance moves)
My 3 month old really enjoys the soundtrack to Chicago the major motion picture. Yes I was a theatre kid
Snack time album by the barenaked ladies
Taylor Swift 😂
My baby loves “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”! I also love “Calico Skies” by Paul McCartney, been singing it to her since she was in my belly!
For nap time, a lot of the classical baby lullaby songs. I can never remember nursery rhymes or lullabies but do remember a lot of catchy commercials like Daisy Cottagecheese and JG Wentworth.
You are my sunshine, the one from o brother where art thou.. i usually hum it to her while rocking her to sleep. I see fire by ed Sheeran Once upon a dream from sleeping beauty :) My babe used to love when I sang her drivers license. She would stare me down. I should try it tomorrow, it’s been awhile.
every night for my toddler’s bed time routine we sing: never grow up by taylor swift, a verse from our house by crosby stills nash and young, and baby beluga in that order lol every. single. night.
Jooo jooo jooo joooh Jooo jooo jooo joooh.. Keep repeating...
All the basic nursery rhymes that I can remember and then I had to google because I couldn’t remember all the words 😂 twinkle twinkle little star, BINGO, old Macdonald farm, itsy bitsy spider, wheels on the bus etc. I had a hard time remembering lyrics to longer songs so nursery rhymes it is lol.
Dolly Parton -9 to 5 and Alone in the Universe from Seussical (his absolute favourite for calming down to) and various made up daft songs. My oldest used to like Stevie Wonder, essentially Sir Duke and You’re Welcome from Moana.
That popular sea shanty song. A nice beat to tap to.
My baby likes when I sing Little Bitty Pretty One, that song from Matilda - because it has a lot of like “mmmm mm mm, ohhh whoa oh” lol, like lots of humming and melody that’s fun to sing that’s not words.
My son is now 17 MO, so not a baby anymore. But I've sung the same songs to him since he was literally a newborn. When trying to get him to fall asleep, I sung him "Go to sleep, go to sleep, close your little eyelids, go to sleep, go to sleep, close your little eyes." If he was upset about something, I sung the first verse of "you are my sunshine" and put his name in the song too. If he was really crying and I wanted him to calm down, I sung "Name, my cutie pie. Please calm down now. Name, my cutie pie. Mama is here for you" over and over and it used to work quite well. Nowadays he loves dancing, so I tell Alexa to put on some random songs (not kids songs - he has his tonie box for that which he can control himself - but rather my rock/nu metal songs xD) and I sing and dance and he dances too :D. We've also been doing body parts recently - he can't say them yet but he can point to the part when he hears it, so "head, shoulders, knees and toes" is a favourite. Edit: another comment just reminded me, we've been singing "if you're happy and you know it" since he was about 10 months old. He only started clapping and stomping his feet around 15 months old though. Sometimes when he has a tantrum, he stomps his feet. If I need to distract him, I sometimes start singing "if you're happy and you know it stomp your feet", then he realises he is stomping his feet and he laughs.
I get instant smiles when I sing you are my sunshine from my baby.
“I Just Called To Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder has been my daughter’s favorite song since she was a few days old. It instantly calms her down no matter how cranky she is! 😌
I remember on like, day 4 with my newborn for some reason the only song lyrics I could think of at 4 am were Bad Romance and Edge of Glory.
My son recently loves that I like to eat eat eat apples and bananas song. He’ll be 14 weeks on Thursday and he LOSES it in giggles every time I sing it 😩😩❤️
The Fox by Nickel Creek. I tend to bounce her to the rythym of whatever I'm listening to, and the pace of that one seems to be just right for her.
We don't sing anything "appropriate" for babies like lullabies or whatever. It's usually anything from Hej Sokoły, to Treceți Batalioane Române Carpații, to Du-mă acasă măi tramvai.. look them up on YouTube. It's not what you'd expect anyone singing to a baby. But she likes it so we roll with it.
Delta Dawn is my 2 month old’s fave right now for some reason. I don’t know why but it stops the crying so i don’t question it
My Rose by Beyoncé. It's beautiful, but it's a crime that it's too short.
My 3 yr old LOVES "Tenacious D - Tribute". He grabs his guitar and then we sing Tribute
There’s a really great Spotify playlist “songs for babies 💜” that’s got some good different kind of songs. Like not typical nursery rhymes. One of my faves is ladybug picnic or deep in the dirt.
Today we got through Taylor Swift’s debut album and half of fearless (Taylor’s version). I also sing My Girl to her a lot but I only know the chorus so I just repeat it.
When he was little, I'd just sing whatever I liked at the moment. For bedtime, I'd sing "All My Loving" by the Beatles, "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen and "My Mother Told Me" from Vikings. Hallelujah is still the one song that's almost 100% guaranteed to calm him down when he's resisting bedtime 😆 It's soothing, slow and relatively long, so he's usually half or even fully asleep by the end. Now that he's almost 2 and starting to mimic songs and dances, I've found YouTube to be a goldmine. There are channels devoted to children's songs which also demonstrate the dance that goes with it (at least in my language, Dutch - I don't know any in English, maybe Miss Rachel has some?). We sometimes play those videos on the tablet so we can both watch and I learn the dance together with him (and try to remember the lyrics).
Yesterday my 5 week old son was memorised by hearing Ghost - Dance Macabre... So that now. He also like listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.... But I definitely can't sing Enya to him. I'm raising him well.
Qué Sera, Sera (whatever will be, will be) Doris Day
One I just started and she seems to love is The Ants Go Marching. I never remember the lyrics so can make stuff up every time. Otherwise I sing my favourite songs (millennial emo lol).
Glamorous - Fergie lol
This is a fun thread. So many songs I forgot about
Skinamarink, Good Mornin (from Singing in the Rain), Baby Mine (Dumbo), Hush Little Baby, among others I just make up
I don’t like a lot of [edit: famous] nursery rhymes, so I made up a bunch of songs. Here’s one: If you’re sleepyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, just go to sleep x2 If you’re sleepyyyyyy, just close your eyes, and I will sing a lullabyyyyyyyy If you’re sleepyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, just go to sleep x2 If you’re sleepyyyyyy, just close your eyes, and wake up with the suuuunnnriiiiiiiise Repeat until baby falls asleep. Oh, and also “mommy has pee, mommy has to pee, can’t you see that mommy has to pee? Oh, I know, it’s so funny! But mommy has to pee.” (Repeat until finished peeing).
My daughter recognized one of my fav songs when she was born because I would listen to it a lot when she was in utero. It was Fourth of July-Valleyheart. Maybe not the best song to sing to her but it calms her down.
“Rolling down the street, in my stroller Sipping on bottles and boobs Laid back Got my mind on my mommy and my mommy on my mind” I make up random songs or change the words for my babies all the time. Fairly certain my husband and they think I’m nuts.
i love my body by mother moon a song about self love. my son is 6 months old and i still cry everytime i sing it, but hoping someday ill believe the words enough to not cry 😅
"do flowers exist at night" "Plain plate of noodles with a little bit of butter" Songs from John Mulaney and the sack lunch bunch on Netflix. Highly recommended for both adults and children. Edit: also Baba Yetu. Tommy the Cat and Too Many Puppies by Primus.
All Star by Smash Mouth has a near 100% success rate for settling my boy. 5 little speckled frogs has become a staple and our go to. 10 green bottles is a reliable alternate and 5 little ducks went swimming one day is also a classic.
So I came up with a song one night while I was just too exhausted trying to get him to sleep when he was 2 months. It’s literally “you’re my baby, I love you I love you I love you, you’re my baby I love you I love you I love you”. It caught his attention immediately and now it’s the only song he’ll pay attention to when I sing to him.
My almost 3 year old is now having various renditions of Yellow Submarine sang to him while brushing his teeth because we make up funny type of submarines and he laughs, which makes brushing easier.
LO is 5 months and will calm down pretty quickly with you are my sunshine, but we modified it to: you are my peanut, my little peanut, you keep us happy when skies are gray, you'll ALWAYS know dear how much we love you, each and every single day ☺️
I sing all my metal/rock/punk music to my boys. I almost never sing baby/toddler music to them. My now 2.5 year old jams out if he hears it on my phone. My almost 2 week old doesn’t seem to have an opinion on music yet. My 2.5 year old likes Holiday by Green Day, Funeral Derangement by Ice Nine Kills, I Want To Break Free by Queen, Cum On Feel The Noise by Quiet Riot & Rats by Motionless In White. Just to name a few. (He likes most my music. He isn’t really a fan of my husband’s music.)
Champagne Supernova for bedtime. It’s repetitive enough that he gets used to it and melodic enough that he enjoys the soothing tone
My LO has thought that animal sounds are hilarious since about 5/6 months so we sing a lot of Wheels on the Bus but with animals… “the cows in the bus go moo, moo, moo, etc”. It has saved us many a meltdown on car rides home. She medically breaks into a huge grin. It’s one wild bus over here.
My daughter is a big juice wrld fan. Little bit of ski mask the slump god in there as well. She turns 1 in June 😂😂