"When they feel good they do it again and again to get the 'good feeling' and also to maintain mental balance." "Songs have predictable patterns making learning easy and fun - kids feel good about learning and 'knowing,'" she adds. When little ones feel out of balance, they're driven to "explore, discover, and learn the information that restores their mental balance." "Kids seek familiarity, which helps them feel safe in a world that is often overwhelming." she continues. "For kids, so much of the world is new," developmental psychologist Kim Metcalfe tells Romper. Inevitably, you'll have those jarring moments when a song from the part of your brain that deals with your kid spills over into the part of your brain that processes things like politics:Īs it turns out, however, there's actually good reason to like these little tunes, and it has to do with why your kid likes to sing them all the time. "I particularly like the syncopated clapping." "If I see the 'Creature Report' before the school run then that catchy little tune stays in my head all day," said another. 'Creature Report' is one of mine, and it drives me absolutely batty! All morning at work. "No one tells you that one of the things about parenthood is that you spend several years (I assume) with a constant internal theme tune going on. "If you haven’t yelled from your kitchen 'Creature Report, Creature Report,' are you really a parent?" asked an article on New Zealand's The Spinoff. There's no shortage of parents venting similar frustrations online. One thing is for sure, which is that you're not alone in your earworm-induced agony. But why? Why do kids get stuck on certain songs to the point where nobody in the house can remember if other tunes exist? Currently, it's a song from The Octonauts that I just can't shake - probably because my youngest kid won't stop singing "Creature Report, Creature Report" all day and night. When my oldest was a toddler, it was the Elmo's World song with my middle child, Wonder Pets. I've heard variations of this joke before, and I'm no exception: I refuse to spend $20 on a Halloween costume, but I'll spent $40 on materials and spend a month making it myself! Worth it.As a mother of three kids ranging from 4 to 17 years in age, I've spent a considerable portion of my life humming snippets of theme songs from children's TV shows (often without realizing it). I put a bit of stuffing into the captain hat so it would hold its shape before I hand-stitched it to the fleece hat. The stripes and Octonauts symbol are cut from felt and attached with craft glue. Then I topstitched the bottom edge of the brim closed. Then I made a slightly domed hat portion, cut it into a circle to fit inside the brim, and machined-sewed it to the inner brim piece only, about halfway down the brim. ![]() To make the captain hat, I made two identical felt brims, sewed them together into tubes, sewed them together along the top edge, then turned them inside out, pressed, and topstitched the top edge. I made at least 4 hat brims before I found one that fit correctly on the fleece hat. Then, I free-handed the fleece captain hat, but my math/measuring skills were NOT WORKING. I tried to freehand the fleece pattern, but couldn't get a good fit, so I used a free pattern from Fleece Fun and added little fleece ears into the side seam. The chevrons are glued-on bits of craft felt. ![]() They're held together in the back with a velcro strip. I cut two identical pieces from the light blue felt and stitched them together. I made the collar by tracing the neckline of the t-shirt and sketching a collar shape. Mae was very excited about the Octo-compass on her belt, which consisted of scraps of craft felt held together by a combination of sewing and fabric glue. The belt is just a doubled rectangle of felt, held in the back with two strips of sew-on velcro. ![]() I made the hat, collar, and belt from white fleece and light blue felt purchased at Jo-Ann. (One of Mae's favorite Octonauts episodes features a Long Arm Squid, so it feels very appropriate that she refers to this blue t-shirt as a "long arm sleeve shirt.") ![]() Their clothes are a bit pricey (I used a coupon code), but it's surprisingly hard to find a matching shirt and sweats in a color other than black or gray anywhere else! I also ordered the rubber boots from Amazon. Me: "How many legs does Professor Inkling have?"įor the costume, I ordered the blue sweatpants and t-shirt from Primary. We were discussing how many legs different types of animals have, and I asked about Professor Inkling (the Octopus from Octonauts). Mae also got in a little "trick" on us this week. She was so excited about it that we had to take it with us on our mini-vacation last weekend. We've enjoyed the Halloween haul, and Mae even shared her full-size Hershey bar with me.
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