Does your kid have "a song"?
Categories: Toddlers, Preschoolers, Development, That's Entertainment
I'm not totally sure when it happened, but my son has an anthem. I think my sister played it for him in her car over a year ago. It was an attempt to distract him from the fact that I wasn't with him and somehow the beat caught his attention. Now my three-year-old is obsessed with Queen's "We Will Rock You."As soon as you start the "din-din-cha, din-din-cha" beat he gets this angry rock face. It's hard to suppress your giggles. He knows the words. He screams, "You got mud on your face, you big disgrace..." with such attitude, its scary. (OK, it's more cute than scary.) He has this need to do this jerky jumping movement he calls dancing. As the song winds down, he plays such a fierce air guitar that you fear his arm will fall off.
The other day, our 11-year-old niece began to sing the song for Nate. "NO!" came the little tyrant's voice. "Stop it Becky! That's not your song. That's my song! You can't sing it." It caught us all off guard. We didn't realize he'd become downright possessive over the song. In his mind, the song is just like a toy or a favourite cup. It brings him so much joy that it's hard for him to share it with anyone else.
What about your kid? Does he/she have an anthem?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Katheryn 3-10-2008 @ 1:06PM
"Ironman" is my 3-year-old son's song. So cute!
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Judy 3-10-2008 @ 1:03PM
We played Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" and my son heard it. He thought it was saying "White and Dirty." I think that's his theme song. (While White and Nerdy is definitely appropriate and entirely too fitting for my husband and me.)
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Gwen 3-10-2008 @ 1:17PM
My 3 year old son loves "Ruby, Ruby" by the Kaiser Chiefs. He makes my husband and I play it several times every time we play Guitar Hero. :) God help you if you sing along with him.
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ecekarmis 3-10-2008 @ 1:55PM
My son is still too small to have a song, but when I was little, my song was "What's Love Got to Do With It" by Tina Turner. I really belted it out, and I believed that I could feel her pain, with all of my six year old being...ahhh...memories!
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Karen 3-10-2008 @ 2:18PM
Before I grew tired of his politics, I used to listen to Jimmy Buffet a LOT! We lived in Florida at the beach, and spent a lot of time near the water. That, and I think having children left me dreaming of Margaritas and time back on a boat.
Anyway, my children adopted different songs at different times, but Cheeseburger in Paradise was coopted by my son.
We even all went as Jimmy Buffet songs for Halloween one year. He was the Cheeseburger!
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jane 3-10-2008 @ 2:04PM
Oh my, this is embarrassing. My son also loves playing guitar hero though his guitar is just a little one from Walmart, he thinks he’s “helping” us play. He loves Talk Dirty To Me. One day we walked to the post office to get the mail and he told the 80 year old woman working there that when we got home he and Mommy were doing to play “Talk Dirty To Me!!!” I thought I was going to fall over dead. That lady had NO idea what guitar hero was and trying to explain, with a red face didn’t help. It does sound sooooooooooooo bad!
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