Having young kids, we (mainly Glenn) were suffering the pain of the travelling parent, ‘Kids Music!!!”. The kid’s music is a little bit of double edged sword. It is fantastic entertainment value, and keeps the girls quiet for hours. It mainly comes out in the car, either on the car stereo, or more so, on the little IPOD we gave them before we left. They can listen to their music for many km’s.
The problem comes, again mainly for Glenn, is that it is repeated again, and again.... and.. again.. and ... again... and.......... again... and, (you get the picture). So not only do you hear the same songs played, but even better, the girls have been singing it over and over. To top it all off, and worst of all, Amy is in a habit, (quite liking some of the music apparently) of singing little one liners continually.
All this results in these songs rattling around and around in Glenn’s head, unabated and unrequested. You can be working away on something innocently, and then all of a sudden catch yourself singing some line in your head. There are perennial favourites like “Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga big red car”, or “Wake up Jeff, everybody’s wiggling...” from the Wiggles. Justine Clark gets a great run, with beauties like “I’ve got a friend that’s just pretend, and you can’t see..”, or “Everybody ROAR like a dinosaur”. A particular favourite of Glenn’s is Hi-5’s “L, O, V, E, I love you and you love me. L, O, V, E, that’s the way it’s meant to be. Give me a L, give me an O, give me a V, and finish with an E”. (Rest assured, all this was typed from memory).
Having said all that, we’d rather them be listening to music rather than watching TV etc, and they really enjoy dancing around the campsite to the music. Small sacrifices really when we can be out here doing this stuff, and having the girls well entertained! All hail “Hot potato, hot potato!!!”
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