So almost three and a half (weep!) seems to be the magic number for shushing me in the car. I am now no longer able to gleefully singalong to the fantastic mixed cd’s that I have made for W.
I have tried just bulldozing my way through singing along (because I love nothing more than setting a great example of how to be an upstanding citizen), but when I raise my voice to join the chorus of a Queen song I am met with W screaming, “NO!! Mama! NOOOOO SINGING!!!!”
Then there is a stare down in the rearview mirror at a red light. His eyebrows raise and then he belts, “weeeeee are the champions, my friend.”
Sigh.
Because I am annoyed with him I decided to record him singing the last bit of Ice Ice Baby this morning. I figured I could privately tease him about it once he has learned about irony and how fantastic it is that a beautiful boy that was once a frozen embryo loves ice. Enjoy.
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Oh, Lord, no! Every time I start singing along, I get shushed. But, I am immature and contrary, and so sometimes I get very obnoxious right back.
My girl is 5 and knows the words to pretty much every pop song, and sings along with them. I like that Gotye song and sing along with that often (since it’s on the radio every hour). She objects. Last week, though, my daughter, my niece, my nephew, and I were in the car on the way to the beach when that song came on. My daughter told me not to sing, so of course, I started singing. She upped the ante by singing “LA-LA-LA-LA-LA” as loud as she could. I, then, (again, immature and contrary) turned the radio waaaaaay up and started singing as loud as I could. And my 15 year old niece and 13 year old nephew joined right in with me. My daughter got really mad and started crying, but she hasn’t told me to stop singing again since.
We did have a brief discussion on how obnoxious behavior breeds obnoxious behavior, though. I like to think of it as a teaching moment.
this cracked me up!!
It was about the same age that my dd started shushing my singing too. My dh will sing anyway, but I get real frustrated by the yelling from the back seat to STOP! At five and a half she is starting to allow some singing again, which gives me hope that we may have more sing-a-longs in our future. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
OMG – DD is 3 1/2 and I get that all the time. “Stop singing Mummy!” And she gets very angry if I won’t. Sometimes I fight back and tell her I’m allowed to sing in my own house, I like singing and I’m also allowed to do what I like. Once she retreated into the corner in a huff muttering to herself, “this is no fun for me, no fun, no fun for me at all.” I had to laugh but I do identify with this and feel your pain.
am starting the countdown for 2 more years and hope that we may singalong again!
B asks me to “turn down my volume”. Sigh. I didn’t think I was THAT bad…
I am sure you sound just lovely.
Not allowed to sing at all. And if I continue K asks me to turn the music off completely.
sheesh! We are totally captive to these 3′s!!
No singing allowed here either – not for ages. I’m not even allowed to bob my head in time with the music. Mean! I just put Radio 4 on (speech based station) and get my own back!
ooooh. Interesting concept. I might try talk radio tomorrow and see what happens. (But I will miss hearing MC Hammer. I really will.)
Our sing a longs have come and gone with the shushs via each developmental period. It’s not ALL over yet
you always give me hope!!
Not anymore. My daughter is two and just put the kibosh on my car-singing this summer. The only thing she’ll let me sing to her is Baby Mine when she’s going to bed. And right now. I’ll take it. But it’s hard not to sing in the car. She yells at me (NO! DO NOT LIKE IT!) even if she just sees me mouthing the words in the rear view mirror. This new no-dining regime sucks. Big time.
oh wow. you can’t even lip synch? That is hard core. I am so sorry.
Forget singing in the car much less the music AHHH teenagers specifically 14 yrs old LOL.
MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM your music is ewwwwwww
(he likes screamo ) BLAHHHHH he has no taste in music LOL
While we can still mostly sing along to music, we cannot sing on our own without accompaniment, and we cannot do any sort of hand movements or dancing associated with your standard children’s music. So if we go to story time, and “Itsy Bitsy Spider” is sung, we are permitted to sing, but our son will firmly hold our hands down to keep us from doing any hand movements. It is quite maddening but also a little funny.
I’ve been shushed for a while. Sometimes she let’s me sing, and sometimes I get, “No mommy sing!” On the other hand, I have the closed captioning turned on our TVs, so I assume she must think I’m brilliant for knowing all the words to the songs on Sesame Street and Signing Time.
(I think I have a little hearing loss, and also, I read once that children who watch TV with the closed captioning on learn to read earlier. Can’t hurt.)
I seem to be in the minority here. Not only CAN I sing in the car, but I MUST sing, at all times.
Yeah, I am never allowed to sing. I get in very much trouble.
I noticed that D is the only one who says that her child is singing in the back seat when he shushes her. Is anyone elses child also singing when they insist you be quiet? I’m wondering if they feel that when you are also singing, and your voice probably overpowers theirs, that they just can’t compete? Lord knows children like the sound of their own voices!! It was just a thought I had. May be completely baseless. There is of course the mom in the comments who can’t even lip sync – or else. I would go batty. My son hasn’t ever specifically said “no singing”, but I do get the eye roll sometimes
. And honestly there is nothing like hearing a 10 year old, who thinks he is being vocally overpowered by you, belting out Adele. I love him.
We’ve been getting that for a while, and sometimes I draw a line and say that if I can’t sing, SHE can’t sing. Also, a line has been drawn regarding demanding that no one else sing so you can “hear the music” but then you (you being the child in question) proceed to sing an entirely different song. No. Mommy’s ears can’t take it.
My boys don’t talk much yet but Grandma and I both get a head shaking ‘no’ from a least one of them when we sing.
Thank god I’m not the only one. My son hasn’t let me sing for a couple years now! Of course, he hums along to everything. When I asked him why he doesn’t want me to sing, he says “Because you’re not good!”
I was more than a little shocked when he let my mom sing. She is the WORST singer.