[blparent] Kid music

[Melissa Ann Riccobono]

No, definitely not crazy.  Made up songs are all the rage around here as
well...  Although I'm not always great at remembering them and using them
over and over.
Melissa

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:31 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Kid music

I make up songs all the time, or change lyrics of existing tunes to fit the
present situation.  I'm glad I'm not the only one, I thought I might be
crazy, which would be okay by me.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:26 AM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] Kid music

> This probably won't work for older school-age kids, but I also make my 
> owns songs up. I just make lyrics up on the spot for pretty much 
> anything. Penny's favorites are my potty song, a very simple, sitting 
> on the potty chair, sitting on the potty chair, Princess Penny's 
> sitting on the potty chair, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. I had to teach 
> Ross this one, which includes clapping, because she loves it so much, 
> and always ask for an encore, grin. And she loves the breakfast song, 
> Eating breakfast, what a yum, hear that rumbling in our tum, means 
> it's time for our breakfast song, yum, yum in our tum, tum, goes down 
> to stop our frown, what a day when we start with the breakfast song. 
> Very cheesey, but she loves it.
>
> Of course this doesn't work when just wanting music in background for 
> them. We do a lot of instrumental as well for these times. Any music 
> is kid-friendly when just the instrumental accompaniment.
>
> Sincerely,
> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Read my blog at:
> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
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