Staring at my alert child at 3:00 AM this morning, two things occurred to me: my little guy needed a gentle lullaby to help him sleep and I don’t know any lullabies. I couldn’t let my lack of intimacy with the lullaby music genre impede my child’s sleep, so I made up a few ditties on the spot. Below are the lyrics to my creations, along with suggestions for songs which could be, with the right tone, turned into a
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I once made a passing remark about how peacefully my son slept while being held. “Wouldn’t we all sleep better if we were held?”, was the response. That comment has troubled me since.
I am roughly three times the size of my son, so I began to picture myself as a full-grown man being held by a comic book-like, giant version of myself as I tried to nestle into his over hairy arms for an afternoon nap. The visual is disturbing!
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