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Singing as part of care-giving Many parents find songs and activities can help with certain everyday care tasks, particularly those which they or their babies or toddlers sometimes find a little stressful. One of the important things we do in a Music One-to-One session is to invite parents to share songs, rhymes and games they use at home to help along certain care tasks. Often parents offer little songs and games they have made up themselves from a pop song they know, or a half-remembered nursery rhyme. What matters is that the song becomes part of a routine of things parents do with their babies, which they both enjoy.

Many parents find songs and activities can help with certain everyday care tasks, particularly those which they or their babies or toddlers sometimes find a little stressful. One of the important things we do in a Music One-to-One session is to invite parents to share songs, rhymes and games they use at home to help along certain care tasks. Often parents offer little songs and games they have made up themselves from a pop song they know, or a half-remembered nursery rhyme. What matters is that the song becomes part of a routine of things parents do with their babies, which they both enjoy.

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