Magic of Motherhood myth #47 exposed
A number of the songbooks and CDs of lullabies in my collection encourage mothers to sing to their children no matter what their musical ability. A child doesn't hear bad singing, they assure the hesitant; a child hears the love in her mother's voice. Or something like that.
So tonight I was at the piano singing some pieces for a wedding this weekend, combining rehearsal and bedtime lullabies. One section was at the upper end of my alto range, and I was working through it trying not to strain. Suddenly a little voice piped up from the bedroom.
"Excuse me? Mommy? Could you sing that part lower? It's not beautiful for me. Thank you."
I guess that answers that.
2 comments:
Too bad there is no like button for your blog, (now that you are on facebook, i can say) but this was really funny. Your daughters must be rather spoiled in the quality of their lullabies, I don't think my kids have an inkling about how off key half have of their parents' singing is. Of course they do have a very musical father so i maybe underestimating them.
So funny. Especially because I always think that Edith and Matilda have striking similarities, but Matilda is usually about a year behind. Except on this - just the other day she said to me, "You know, Mama, it's funny because you start every song not singing the right tune, but then you always find the right tune in the middle." (It's true, I'm afraid.)
Hope the wedding singing goes well - no tiny critics piping up there, at least!
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