It's funny the difference
between the songs your firstborn child would sing and the songs that
my third born sings. I was very careful about any influences my first
daughter had. I taught her Bible songs with solid truths and
educational type songs – ABCs, “Head and Shoulders Knees and
Toes”, etc. We avoided many typical childrens songs that seem
other meaningless or with rather morbid meanings (like “London
Bridges”). But inevitably she learned and loved “Ring around the
Rosies” - at church nursery ironically. My husband and I came up
with more spiritual/Godward words: Something like, “Praise the God
of glory, … Grace, Grace, …
Anyway, so was our attempts
to keep our eldest pure – so its funny more that asking my baby
girl, now 21 months, what would you like to sing, she says, “Spit
out my eyeballs.” And believe it or not, this is a real song that
my girls sing. This song is derived from the goofy song I made up
one day - “Spit our your Pluggie” in an attempt to wean our
middle daughter from her pacifier (“plug”). The girls have since
sang this song about spitting out your thumb for baby thumb-sucker,
with the song eventually evolving into “Spit out your Eyeball.”
What a song for a toddler!
