Put A Record On: For The Children
My son is officially one year old as of last week, which is surreal. The Reddit parenting wisdom of "The days are long but the years are short" does seem true-ish; I'll say the year was also sort of long, but I think our guy is like an under 10th-percentile sleeper. In any event, we are throwing him a big party this weekend to celebrate, complete with all of the friends' children that suddenly exist in abundance. You blink, and there are babies everywhere — beautiful chaos multiplying.
The soundtrack for our parties, then, is shifting. My husband and I started working on this playlist years ago, for our nephews. Now it's for our son, and maybe your kids too if you need a little musical inspiration that's not explicitly "children's music" (which I am pro conceptually, but also I'd rather be introducing my kids to songs I love and grew up with....obviously this take is very much subject to change). I am someone who tends to like music that is kind of childlike and whimsical and not overly serious anyway, so it works.
What did I miss? What songs do/did your kids love?
