My two-year old loves Twinkle Twinkle Little Star/Incy Wincy Spider and I Am A Little Teapot. We sing these songs a lot. We sing them and sing them and I can do a perfect teapot dance – Lift me up and pour me out, ta -da!! It can get monotonous but I shouldn’t complain. Four years ago my other daughter loved these songs too. My eldest daughter will be seven soon. Do you know what she loves now?
Yesterday we were in the car
“Turn this song up Mammy, I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeee it” she cried. I did. It was this song she “loveeeeeeeees”
To be fair, its a catchy tune. She is still six. Six not eighteen. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? It feels like we were singing Incy Wincy Spider a few weeks ago and now its
She has the moves too. I don’t know where she got them from but they wouldn’t look out of a place in a club. She has been listening to the radio version of the song but here are some of the lyrics of the song and what they made me think
When you hear this in the club -
You’re gonna turn this shit up
You’re gonna turn this shit up
You’re gonna turn this shit up
OMG my daughter is going to be in a nightclub in most likely 10 years time!!! I still think I should be going to be ‘clubs though to be fair the only club’s I am a member of now are supermarket value clubs. She is not allowed to say “shit” I don’t care how much she likes the song.
When we up in the club
All eyes on us
All eyes on us
All eyes on us
See the boys in the club
They watchin’ us
They watchin’ us
They watchin’ us
My daughter is going to be dancing a club, with boys eyes on her. This must not happen. How will she be dressed? In eleven years time, I wont be able to tell her how to dress or stop her wearing whatever she wants. JESUS. How am I going to handle that. How is her father going to handle that? JESUS.
Everybody in the club
All eyes on us
All eyes on us
All eyes on us
AGAIN.
I wanna scream and shout and let it all out
And scream and shout and let it out
We sayin’, “Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh”
We sayin’, “Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh”
I wanna scream and shout and let it all out
And scream and shout and let it out
We sayin’, “Ohh, wee ohh, wee oh wee oh”
You are now-now rockin’ with Will.I.Am and Britney, bitch
Aw yeah
Aw yeah
Aw yeah
Bring the action
What action??? MAKE IT STOP. Freeze Time. Turn of the tv and the radio and the internet. I might BRING THAT ACTION.
Ok,the obvious thing to do is try and sway her back to other music or at worst let her listen to the radio edit. Clearly I am getting way ahead of myself too but eleven years ago I was “screaming and shouting and letting it all out” every Saturday night and in eleven years time she will be. My memories of Saturday nights are crystal clear. Eleven years pass in a blink of an eye. I am nearly hoping my memory fades a bit by the time 2024 rolls around. I definitely hope and pray her fathers does.
Do you know what else this song made me think? I miss nights out without having to worry about hangovers and babysitters and the cost and the effort. The only “eyes on us” if I was in a club these days would be “Look at the older woman getting down with the kids”. Then I got to thinking, what if my kids have 18th or 21st birthday parties? Are myself and my friends going to get down with the kids on the dance floor? Am I going to be that mother? Will I be wearing leopard skin in this scenario? Will I be showing the kids my MC Hammer moves?
On the plus side the constant replaying of “Gangnam Style” phase seems to have passed but I’m going to make more of an effort to enjoy “I’m a little teapot” when I still can. Bring on the handle and the spout.
“Its Mammy, B***h”
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Jesus, my girls love that track too.
However, I have decided that the only way to keep them in line when they hit teens is to embarrass the shite out of them, so fuck yeah I’ll be up shaking my ass.
BTW: I thought all kids danced like they are strippers?? Do they not *sadface*
I am so relieved other kids dance like strippers.
And now just think how your parents must have felt back in the day when you were singing along to “Like a Virgin” or something similar. I’m sure there were rosaries said in many an Irish household!!
Oh yes indeed! That was me! And Papa Don’t Preaching all over the place. Except I thought the words were “I’m in love with you” instead of “I’m in trouble deep”. Which was probably a good thing.
Two glasses of wine and a couple of cocktail sausages and you KNOW you’ll be shakin your thang on that 21st dancefloor!
Oh, me too, I was totally singing “Like a Virgin” and thinking it was to do with Mary. Sigh. My poor parents.
Great post. Ill be sending this on to my mates who have daughters! Aaannd…this is why Im glad Ive a son. I too have been to Wesley in Donnybrook so we are all aware of the shenanigans and carry on there. More bad dancing and embarrassing our kids, quick, more green tracksuit dancing!
Yes! My 5 year old is the same, her dance moves scare me! And this song was playing the ”bitch” part at 9 in the morning, lucky I’d just dropped her off to school! And I’ll so be dancing at my kids 18tha and 21st, in leopard print bwahahaha! x
My 4 yr old loves “single ladies” and has all the bum wiggling down to a T. My 17 month old woke me singing ” baby, baby, baby… OHH”!! This morning. There is no escape. Dust off the leopard print, ladies!!
Brace yourselves; life goes by in a blink.I’m dealing with a nearly 10 yr old boy, 8 and 6 yr old girls pulling the same things…and we’re talking grandkids here!
Hilarious!!!
Omg that was such a funny read it was brilliant. Love it. Dee
Ha! Fantastic. Unfortunately, Gangnam Style is still a frequently hummed tune over here in our house…..
Hi-larious read. Thanks, I needed the giggle.