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Note to Readers: Iâm taking off this week to celebrate the birth of my newest granddaughter, who was born May 15, and is beautiful and perfect in every way. This column is from 2004, but it is still just as true.
Thereâs a song we sing, the women in my family, when we celebrate the birth of a child. âThe Baby Song,â I call it. It is sung, I suspect, by women in most families, when their time comes to be mothers and grandmothers and aunts. Men have their own ways of welcoming babies, but women like to sing.
The words change, the tune varies, but itâs still the same songâa hymn of praise, an ode to joy, a prayer for strength and safekeeping, an old shape-note harmony of happy, grateful hearts.
Randall: ‘The Baby Song’ one women know the world over
Note to readers:
I’m taking off this week to celebrate the birth of my newest granddaughter, who was born May 15, and is beautiful and perfect in every way. This column is from 2004, but is still just as true.
There’s a song we sing, the women in my family, when we celebrate the birth of a child.
“The Baby Song,” I call it. It is sung, I suspect, by women in most families, when their time comes to be mothers and grandmothers and aunts.
Men have their own ways of welcoming babies, but women like to sing. The words change, the tune varies, but it’s still the same song – a hymn of praise, an ode to joy, a prayer for strength and safekeeping, an old shape-note harmony of happy, grateful hearts.
Meet Aloma: the Japanese male idol group cheering on moms through the trials of child-rearing Today 06:50 am JST Today | 06:50 am JST TOKYO
Some Japanese male idol groups become household names thanks to their broad, mainstream appeal. Others, though, appeal to a specific niche, like the newly formed idol unit Aloma. They’ve been earning fans not necessarily because of their jaw-dropping looks or dance moves, but because they’ve been established with one goal above all else: “become the strength of mothers doing their best in raising their kidsProduced by Little Mama, a Japanese company focused on providing advice and seminars on raising kids, Aloma is a seven-member boy band centered around the very specific theme of child-rearing.