Take Time to be Silly! - Regarding Nannies

by Glenda Propst with help from our Facebook Fans

There is nothing that makes me happier than to hear children laughing and one way to make that happen is to be silly!
Sometimes, when my tween age charge is mad at me, a surefire way to make her laugh is for me to “attempt to rap” or even better would be to “attempt to dance” because I can’t do either. But being silly is a great tension breaker, a great diversion and a great release. We should all take time to be silly.
One of the easiest ways to be silly with children is singing silly songs.
I asked some of our Facebook fans what their favorite silly songs were and here are some of their responses:

Loving Arms Orlando ‎“I have a little turtle, His name is Tiny Tim!” and “I’m a NUT!”. Makes them laugh everytime. 🙂

Tonya Grell Sakowicz: “Skidamarink ”

Tara Lindsay: We love the “Tiny tim turtle song”.
We love” 7-8-9 “and “The Ninja Song by Barenaked Ladies” (from the Snacktime album).
Gets my charges giggling and singing every time…and the “Popcorn song” from that album, too.

Greta Schraer RN Team
“I Never Go to Work”
“L M N O” and “E eats Everything”
“The Baby Bumble Bee Song” (hysterical instead of sad)
“Oldies “Lollipop” and “Monster MAsh”
…”I like to Move it” … 90’s song “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” is requested in every ride in my car.

Bonnie D. Mills On top of Spagetti,
“Do your ears hang low” and two Italian ones I really like, “I Coccodrillo Come Fa” and “Il Caffe della Pepina”.
The Italian ones my charge sings to me, but I really like them.

Beth Lehmann “TMBG – Alphabet of Nations”

Karen E. Yatsko:Tom Chapin songs – “The Cousins are Coming”, “Garbage”, and “Mother Earth”!!

April Krause We love the song “Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?” It is not a silly song but you can make it one.

Deborah Brown Sandra Boynton’s “Silly Lullabye” – it’s the naptime song around here!

Deanna Weyandt Aboud “Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track”. The kids crack up everytime they do the “splat.”

Heather McKinley we’ve been singing “Down by the Bay” all week

Anne-Marie Stanley: “Shake your Sillies Out”, “Alice the Camel” for some reason my charge thinks this is hystercial.

Sue Downey “‎18 Wheels on a Big Rig” from Trout Fishing in America!

A wonderful resource for finding the words to all those songs you thought you forgot is a website called
KIDIDDLES you can look up songs by title, or category. For example there is a category for Animal Songs, Silly Songs, Learning Songs etc. They even have some files to listen to the songs so that if you can’t remember the tune you can refresh your memory!
So share your favorite silly song in the comment section and then hop on over to check out Kiddiddles. You will love it and I bet you will find some favorites from your own childhood!