Oh the Thinks You Can Think

He was born a ham, he has lived the past eleven years of his young life as a ham.
The child IS a ham.
He's been in several plays and for each one he's been in, there has been an audition. He practices and practices weeks before the audition, ensuring that the tune is sung to perfection!
I'm not allowed to sing along or get him back on track by reminding him that he's off key. Audition practices are off limits!! My sole purpose at those times is to listen. Just be quiet and listen. And clap. Clap loudly.

There are times when we sing together though. When he was quite young, he made up a jingle of his own. He makes up his own music so the song we sing (over and over) has no tune that you'd be familiar with. He was three when he first created the song and we still sing the song, however mockingly now. In the back seat of the car and obviously feeling neglected and not getting his due attention, he began to sing out loudly, "Let's talk about me, let's talk about how cute I am. Let's talk about me. Let's talk about how cute I am". Over and over he sang the song. Repeatedly. Soon I was allowed to sing along and I sang that song when he was being er, "attention seeking" to remind him that he cannot be in the spotlight all of the time. He sang with me to reiterate that yes, he wanted the attention.

Years passed and we still sing the song. He's only added one song to the list that anyone aside from the cast can chime in with. The song?
"Oh the Thinks You Can Think" from Seussical the Musical.
I don't really know why I've been given "permission" to sing this song. He was in the play and when he auditioned, when he practiced, I was not allowed to sing.
Magically, I was granted the right.
We sing the song when we're getting dressed to go out, walking down the street, in the car or in the store. We sing to sing.
But only those two songs.
No one else may sing those songs with him. Those are the rules.

Tell the world what song you and YOUR child sing. Is it a catchy tune like the bean chant ? You know the one, "Beans, beans the musical fruit..."
I've been told that I may not sing that song along with him.
Parent Bloggers reminds me that the bean song is all wrong anyway. The bean is a vegetable!
You can help right this wrong by going to beanchant and with the help of your child, rewrite that song. The bean is a badly misunderstood fruit. I mean vegetable.

This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as an entry for a contest sponsored by Bush's Beans.