There Should Be A Song Called, “Mommy’s Hungover Again”
Posted
May 22, 2008 at
8:24 pm by
Maureen
I have good news and bad news.
First, the good: The gods have blessed us and my husband and I discovered something that makes our small son stop wriggling around for more than five seconds. This thing actually occupies him for several minutes at a time and is a magical cure-all for whining, crying, temper-tantrums and general pissed-off-ness.
The bad? It has possibly significantly altered the neurons in my brain.
I’m talking, of course, about the video Baby Songs. If you haven’t heard of it, please get yourself up to speed. You’ll be happy you did.
I first heard Baby Songs when my sister was little. It was the only thing that would shut her up (seeing a pattern here?) when I babysat, so in my wise thirteen years of wisdom, I let her watch it whenever she wanted. The catchy tunes soon seared into my very cerebral cortex and I memorized all the lyrics.
Fast forward to many years later. For Christmas, my sister bought my son Baby Songs. I laughed and stuffed it behind my boxed sets of The Office. Then, a few weeks ago, when my son was being particularly ornery, I pulled it out in a last-ditch effort before I threw myself out the window.
And. Holy. Crap.
He became hypnotized by the songs, “Daddy Be A Horsey,” “Walking,” and many, many others.
I minored in history in college, OK? I should’ve seen this coming–history ALWAYS repeats itself. Duh.
Except now I find myself singing on my way to and from work lyrics such as: “Walking, walking, walking, walking/Seems so easy now/But I remember when I was small/And I did not know how.” It’s like a part of my brain, lying dormant, was suddenly reactivated and now cannot ever be shut off. And I’m sort of ashamed, sort of weirdly proud that I actually went on the website for the guy who wrote and sung all the songs on the tape. His website did not, however, offer any sort of antidote or remedy to fix my now slightly damaged brain.
Please tell me I’m not the only one to suffer the horrors of not only KNOWING all the lyrics to horrid kid songs, but regularly find yourself WHISTLING them in public places.
Tags: Baby-Songs, baby-videos, Hap-Palmer, Parenting, singing-along, songs, temper-tantrums, whistling |
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1. Kennedy said:
May 22, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
Sittin in a highchair,big chair, my chair, sittin in a highchair, feed me soon.
Nope, you’re not the only one.
2. Allison G. said:
May 23, 2008 @ 10:21 am
Never heard Baby Songs. But I had an eerily similar experience with the Wiggles.
Crunch Munchy Honey Cakes, anyone?
3. Jennifer said:
May 23, 2008 @ 10:25 am
I am very guilty of singing barney, sesame street, etc. songs.. they come out of no where and I just start singing or humming them.. Its a terrible epidemic hahaha
4. Jenna Roberts said:
May 23, 2008 @ 11:10 am
LOL at your story! That is so funny! To think it was right there waiting the whole time hehe. Too cute!
5. Cienna said:
May 24, 2008 @ 11:09 am
I do not know Baby Songs. But I do know the songs from The Wonder Pets, Blues Clues, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, etc. My coworker’s daughter is a year older so he knows all of these too.
On really bad days when everything is going wrong we start singing the songs from these shows whenever something makes us mad or doesn’t work instead of cussing. Our other coworkers are amused and the patients (we work in a medical clinic) think we are absolutely insane). Because “The phone, the phone, the phone is ringing. We’ll be right there…”
6. Maureen said:
May 25, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
Excuse me while I go smash my head into a wall.
7. CanadianMom said:
May 26, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
I also do not know Baby Songs, but rather all the opening theme songs to the cartoons. Mentioned was Wonder Pets (what’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!), but I also love Peep and the Big Wide World, and Dora the Explorer’s jingles. They spring up in my head all the time. Oh, and the one from SpongeBob SquarePants.
8. Navywife AND mother of a SEAL said:
May 26, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
*L* I just had similar experience..just with the rugrat movie that was made back in 96. We drove from california to chicago and that is all my 6 year old, my 4 year old and 2 year old. My 6 year old is now 18 and in the Navy. I have a turning 6 year old…now too. She has discovered the movie and now all i hear is “ting tang walla walla bing bang” *L* It brings back so many memories..then i think..hum..geez..Im doing this all over again..well its deffinately the last one.
9. Kevin said:
June 4, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
I know Baby Songs all too well….and happily! Hap Palmer (musician in Baby Songs) is a god to little ones everywhere. My wife and I would not have survived without these DVD’s. Did you know there were about 10-12 different albums released?