There are at least three great to sing to babies – the first being that there’s no pressure to sing in tune or be otherwise any good at it. They have nothing to compare it to!
But it also might help in their development.
It turns out that babies may be able to identify rhythms long before they can identify and make sense of words.
So while even your baby talk sounds like a whole bunch of nothing to them, your songs are helping their brains make connections.
Singing can also help improve a baby’s awareness and attention, leading to closer bonding. And those sweet songs might even help to put your babe in a better mood, calming them and possibly helping them fall asleep. (After all, isn’t that why we have lullabies?)
While bonding through song is usually strongest with parents, we’ve seen lots of siblings do it too.
And there’s no shortage of toddlers singing to their newborn brothers and sisters online.
New babies often seem like a threat to toddlers – especially if they’d been an only child prior to that, so what parent doesn’t love to see a sweet moment between their little ones?
If you can stave off the jealousy kids often feel when a new baby comes home and forces parents to divide their attention, it can do a lot to reduce everyone’s anxiety, but especially the toddler’s.
And no matter how tiny and fragile (and loud!) a newborn might seem to a sibling, toddlers are often especially fascinated by them. It wasn’t too long ago that they were a baby, so holding one lets them know just how much they’ve grown and gives them a sense of responsibility.
While the circumstances around the sweet video of the toddler singing to his newborn sister are unclear, it’s been viewed at least hundreds of thousands of times on both YouTube and Facebook across multiple accounts.
Maybe it was staged, maybe it was an impromptu song – but mom or dad got a sweet memento when they hit “record” on their son serenading his new sister with Joe Cocker’s “You Are So Beautiful.”
The song was made famous when it was recorded by rock legend Joe Crocker in 1974, but it was released earlier that year by Billy Preston, who co-wrote it as an ode to his mother.
It was never meant to be a romantic song.
Not even a minute long, the video just shows a simple moment, but it’s bound to melt your heart (or at least warm it).
The eye contact, the tiny baby in only a diaper, the look she gives her brother – adorable!
It’s like she knows she’s got it good and has a sibling she can count on.
And when she smiles at him? Oh my, just try not to say “aww” out loud!
The video is a few years old now and we don’t know what kind of relationship these little ones have as they grow, but we do hope their parents show them this video just to prove that at one moment they were the only two people in the world to one another.
Be sure to scroll down below to see the adorable toddler serenade.
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