I've come to the realization that I've developed a syndrome in my 4+ years of motherhood. A little something I like to call, The Mommy Singsong Syndrome (TMSS).
Early Symptoms: It starts when you rock your first newborn in your arms at night. Your natural inclination is to hum or sing your child to sleep, and if you're like me, you will be stumped for a tune. Without a solid database of lullabies in my head, I once caught myself quietly singing, "my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like it's better than yours...hmmm hmmm...la la la la la...warm it up..." Yes, that's right. I caught myself singing the Milkshake song to my precious little newborn baby.
Phase 2: As she grew older, I started to sing various songs, all to the same tune. You may know the tune I'm talking about - the tune that would accompany something like this: "This is the way you brush your teeth, brush your teeth, brush your teeth, this is the way you brush your teeth, when it's time for bed." I started to change it up, slightly varying the lyrics, graduating to such hits as, "This is the way we pee on the potty..." and "This is the way we put on our jammies..."
Full Blown Syndrome: You will eventually graduate to the phase I'm at now - the "make up your own lyrics to a tune only your generation would recognize". An example of this is my famous bath time song. I sing it to the tune of The Love Boat theme song (if you're younger than me, you probably won't have any idea what I'm talking about): "It's baaath time, exciting and newww. It's baath time, and mommy's gonna wash youuu." Yes, there you have it folks. I've revealed another one of my hidden talents.
There is no cure, and you will know you have full-blown TMSS, when you're wrapping up a play date with one of your friends and her children, and as you start to pick up the toys, you start singing, "Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere..." Without thinking, your mommy friend will join you as you pick up the remnants of your children's play. You will start to harmonize, pause, and then look around in embarrassment, realizing that while you two are singing and picking up, your children are nowhere to be found (true story).
Do you have The Mommy Singsong Syndrome?
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I have that syndrome! AND I use to LOVE the show The Love Boat! You rock, Mama B!
ReplyDeleteLaughing really, really hard. Ah! now I have a double ear-worm: The exciting and new cleanup song.
ReplyDeleteI knew this was legit! hubby tries to say I would burst into spontaneous song even before kids.....lies, all lies I tell you! Singing in the car with the radio on is NOT the same thing. right?
ReplyDeleteReally honey, he says...then why are the kids singing about "waking up with a bottle of jack" and not Twinkle Twinkle Little Star??
ah crap, I got it bad.
Oooo...I know the sing song. You do know we're all singing The Love Boat bathtime song now, right? I used to sing Girl Scout & Christmas songs til my voice was gone. Thank goodness kidlets don't care what key we're singing in! :>
ReplyDeleteWhen I sing, people generally leave the room - and this includes babies, if they can crawl - they will. If they can't, they'll cry. I am not a good singer. I can hum though. (-:
ReplyDeleteWhat would we do without "Clean up, clean up. Everybody, everywhere?" Well, my children are a little bit removed from that. Now they just wail when I ask them. I need to start "telling" them to clean their rooms, don't I. Great post. We all get those melodies stuck in our heads.
ReplyDeleteOh my, the love boat!! I used to beg my parents to stay up and watch that show.
ReplyDeleteI still rock side to side in a queue at the supermarket...
Hi. my name is Sister SIster and I have TMSS. :) i'm glad to hear i'm not the only one who does this
ReplyDeleteHahaha! Yep, all true. I made up a song to the tune of Raffi's "there's a spider on the floor" - mine goes "there's a poopy in the dipes, in the dipes,..." and so on. I make up millions of songs all day long and then mostly forget them. But the poopy song, the handwashing song, the cleanup song, and the night-night song have endured. I may just have to copy your bath song. ;)
ReplyDeleteToo funny.
ReplyDeleteAt least you can remember the words to the milkshake song. Lol. I botch it as soon as I sing my milkshake.
I remember rocking my granddaughter and started singing "do the Helen Keller" song. She liked it but I realized it wasn't the best song to sing.
I like your version of Love Boat. I simply just belt out the original song at any given time.
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Hahaha...Singing all the time... there are worse things a mom could do! LOL re the Milkshake song. I used to have it as my phone ring tone just because it make me smile (come to think of it, maybe I'll cahnge it back!) And my kids used to ask, "mom, I don't get that song? What does it mean?"
ReplyDeleteAhhh yes, I have this syndrome!! I sing a song for everything" brushing teeth, cleaning up, potty.....
ReplyDeleteLOL that is so funny! I caught my sister singing a Lady Gaga to her newborn once!
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LOL This is so funny. I love that bath time is going to be exciting and new. lol :-)
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It's normal for mothers to sing songs to their children. Songs can also be used for children to learn about the world, and even have fun while doing chores and things they don't usually enjoy, like brushing the teeth. Moms like you should be given awards for being a good one. :-)
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