Tag: children’s songs

  • Inappropriate children’s songs

    Now that Kai is beginning to learn and mimic, we are starting to be more mindful of the songs we sing to him. Especially children’s songs. On our banned wagon now is the French ditty Alouette, which we thought was about a skylark. It is about a skylark, and the cruel thing (plucking its feathers)…

  • Scary songs for children

    We’re still learning how to put Kai to bed, or simply to calm him down. Talking and singing softly is one of the things we find works. We’ve been singing to Kai some of the songs we know from when we were kids. And yes, we already knew that ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’, ‘Baa Baa…