Simple Slow & Lovely: 7 Lessons on Bedtime from a Singing Five-Year-Old
Originally posted on Simple Slow & Lovely
“Hhhmmmm…..la la la la…….mmmm…..yeah, yeah yeah”
Silence.
30 seconds later:
“Ahhhhhhh, ah ah ah ah. La la la la, la la la la la la. Ah, ah ah ah ah ah ah. The girl who has…everything.”
Silence.
15 seconds later.
“Joy to the world. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah..”
And so on.
This was the usual soundtrack of my mornings when my daughter was a young child. She almost always started singing before she was out of her bed (and still does sometimes). She didn’t discriminate with her choice of material – Disney songs, made up gibberish, hymns – anything was fair game and her repertoire was vast. I don’t know that she’s ever had a favorite song – singing is just something that brings her joy.
Which gets me thinking about what needs to be in place for a human being to wake up filled with joy.
