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When it comes to expressing emotions, we could all learn something from this baby. Thanks to her lack of inhibitions, she really shows her dad how much she likes his singing.
Every parent should sing to their baby. One video really shows why. It isn’t flashy. It just shows a father singing to his baby daughter. And it’s amazing because of that.
The dad holds his baby in his arms, with her head nestled in the palms of his hands. She looks up at her dad with love in her eyes.
The dad sings to the baby, “You are so beautiful to me.” As he sings this lyric, the baby cannot contain her happiness. She forms a huge gummy smile and laughs slightly.
The baby may not understand the words, but she can clearly grasp their meaning.
Then the dad starts rubbing the baby’s head with his thumbs and continues with, “Can’t you see?” But it’s obvious that the baby can very clearly see!
The dad keeps on singing. Every time he starts to a new lyric, the baby smiles again. At the end of the song, the dad gives his daughter a big kiss. The baby looks more contented than ever.
Luckily, the mom was filming this heartwarming moment. The footage then appeared on Youtube, where it soon went viral.
To date, it has gained over 2 million views. It also has more than 35,000 likes and 1,700 comments. People have been saying things like this:
Not only is singing a great way for a parent to show that they love their baby, but it’s also great for developing the baby’s brain.
Jessica Grahn, a cognitive neuroscientist and associate professor of the University of Western Ontario has stated the following on the studies of parents singing to their babies:
“We are seeing relationships between rhythm and language abilities, attention, development, hearing acuity, and even social interactions.”
In fact, parents should start singing to their babies while they’re still in the womb, other research has indicated.
This research comes from a study of 170 women. Half of them sang lullabies to their babies during pregnancy. The other half didn’t. The babies that were sung to in the womb ended up crying for significantly less time after they were born.
And it’s not like there’s a shortage of songs that parents can sing to their babies.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t take much effort to sing to a baby/baby bump. But doing this simple thing is incredibly beneficial for the baby. So the message is loud and clear: parents, sing to your babies. It’s for their own good.