The Same Songs... Over, and Over, and Over, and Over, and Over....

It's getting bad. Lately, as I do my daily worker bee chores around the house, I can't get The Noble Duke of York out of my head. It's no wonder--- I sing it each week, over and over again. I don't have any children, so I had to learn all of these songs from scratch, which was no easy feat. Recently, I've been trying to improve my mental file cabinet of songs. I looked in many books, such as Babies in the Library by Jane Marino, and I'm a Little Teapot by Jane Cobb (special note: it seems those who write professional development books on Mother Goose times are all named Jane! :) ). At my last Rhythm and Rhyme session, I was armed with an arsenal of new rhymes, which I proudly learned and was excited to relay.... and you know what? All they wanted to hear was The Noble Duke of York. Lesson learned: The familiar is what works for toddlers and babies. So this week, I will be back to singing the old favorites, even if it means singing The Itsy Bitsy Spider as I go for my morning run!