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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Public Singing May Be a Requirement

Today in my mommy and me aerobic class we had to sing to our babies. It wasn’t until I was almost done with the song that I realized what a long way I’ve come. One very important thing that no one ever told me about parenting is that there’s a good chance that you’ll have to sing in public. Yes, that’s right. It doesn’t matter if you’re completely tone deaf or if you’re the type of person who would rather streak a room than sing karaoke. If you sign up for a baby class, public singing may be an unwritten requirement.

The first time I had to do this was for a mommy and baby STORY HOUR class that I took. It was just a total guess, but I assumed that, seeing that there was the word “story” in the name and it was being held at a library, my child would be.. I don’t know… listening to a story? I found myself 5 weeks into motherhood and having to sing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. That along with “ABCs” (which is the exact same tune by the way) are two of my least favorite songs to have to sing in public because they’re very high-pitched, which means that inevitably my voice cracks. I was completely mortified. Did I mention it was in a library? In other words, it was otherwise completely quiet in the building. I could imagine the library patrons who had been peacefully reading thinking “Why does it sound like an animal is dying?”

That class was only 6 weeks long, so for 6 weeks despite a hot flushed face and sweaty hands, I sang with the other parents to my child (there were only 5 of us in the class.) That broke me into the idea of singing in public, so when I signed my son up for swim lessons when he was 6 months old I at least knew how to start out singing Twinkle Twinkle really low so my voice wouldn’t go so high and crack at the end. (You have to lay your child on his back with his head on your shoulder in the water and tell him to look at the stars. Then you sing to him. Fortunately for the children being on their backs usually means that they have water in their ears and thus can’t hear you).

I’ve also had to sing in music class. The surprise there was that we weren’t allowed to “talk",only sing so if you needed to run to the bathroom for instance you had to sing “I’m going to the bathroom”. Thankfully I had already been through story hour, and swim lessons or else I might have died on the spot from humiliation or at the very least peed on myself. Unwritten public singing was also requiered for yoga class and more recently mommy and me aerobics. The good news for any of you who might also be self-conscious is that I’m always so busy worrying about how terrible I sound that I never notice what other people sound like. I can only hope they’re doing the same for me.

A.Elliot’s Lesson Learned: Public Singing May be Required!

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