Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Willie Nelson STAT

This week in Parenting Gone Awry:

This baby development book I'm reading suggests that the fifth week is a great time to play or sing some music or nursery rhymes for de bebe ("he'll enjoy the rhythmic cadence"). Unfortunately, I am no help on that end as I am braindead enough that I actually had to google the lyrics to Rockabye Baby (no, seriously). So, I had the brilliant idea to flip through the music channels on our digital cable to find something that Hopper would like listening to--judged solely on what made him stop screeching at the time. So what do you think it was?? Was it Lite Hits of the 90's? No, no it wasn't...Arena Rock?.. SHOWTUNES???? (sheesh, I WISH). No, friends, my son immediately responds with a beatific smile to.... Soundscapes. You know what I'm talking about, right? It's that stuff that they play in offices of Organic Herb Doctors, illicit Yoga Dens, and bookstores where they sell purple crystals right next to titles such as "Find Your Inner Chakradancer." You know, there's usually a waterfall featured somewhere and artists like Anugama or Nawang Khechog playing things like "Follow the Mist"....

Right about now you're thinking to yourself "Hmmm, for someone trying to be so derisive, she sure does know a lot of PARTICULARS about this stuff" and to you I say: Why yes I do. Because I've been watching this channel for TWO HOURS. And I have to tell you, it doesn't calm me in the way they intend it to be calming. I think this music gives me 'Roid Rage. This channel consists entirely of landscape photographs of grazing cows in the shadow of Mount Everest and little biographical notes on the artists such as "Shao Rong began playing the chinese lute at age 10" and it literally makes a vein on my temple poke out. But the Hop really seems to enjoy it so what am I gonna do?

I think I'm going to shelve this suggestion for now and keep a prayer up for Jazz that's what. Something else to appease Little Yanni over here. GAH.... I was totally not kidding about Newang Khechog, btw. Um, enjoy?

6 comments:

Allison said...

Having given a lot of massages to this very type of music, I feel for you. A lot of it is boring. I mean, uh, relaxing.

Allison said...

Also, have you ever seen those lullaby CDs where it's regular music that's been lullabized? (Is that a word? Now it is.) Just look up "Rockabye Baby" on amazon.com and there's Beatles, U2, Bob Marley, Metallica, No Doubt, etc. Quite the selection.

Steph said...

Did you try Led Zeppelin? I'm not sure why, but it works. At least for two babies I know.

Robyn said...

I'm sending you all my lullaby books the kids had. Some of them were actually kinda neat. Why don't you make him a CD like you used to make my kids? Remember those? With all the songs from movie soundtracks. Where the cool Aunt Lee who thought of these things when my kid was little? We still have those CD's too.

Stinkydog said...

Cool Aunt Lee got the brilliant idea to make Hopper his own iTunes playlist and is working on it...

Juliet said...

You need to throw a little Crazy Frog in the mix. The Hopster will be boogyin' in his bloomers before you know it.