When becoming a parent you find yourself in a position to not only a child’s mother or father but to also be their teacher, their doctor, etc. A parents job is to pretty much do it all when it comes their own child’s best interest. For example when it comes to teaching your child something it comes down to using the right technique. Every child is different in the sense of how they learn something, but they all have one thing in common and that is what it is used. If the right techniques often enough most children will learn better.
Let’s say that you are a stay at home parent then you are going to be the person which choose what activities is done that day, but if your child attends a daycare or a preschool depending on their age then a teacher will be the one responsible. Most of the time a parent or a teacher will often agree on using nursery songs, or rhymes as a technique for babies and preschools to learn from. It has been studied that a rhymes can help children with language and communication skills, hand and eye coordination, rhythm patterns, and so much more.
When picking the right nursery rhyme, its all about what you are trying to get that child to learn. For example there is an incredibly huge list of popular nursery rhymes to choose from, there is Humpty Dumpty, Wheels on the bus go around, Itsy-Bitsy Spider, and the best one of them all specially If You’re Happy and You Know It. This rhyme is an extremely popular repetitive children’s song that has been around since the 1950s. In 1957 the song was actually published in a variety of different places like children’s drama projects, and even a nursing home manual. In 1971 the rhyme was used by Joe Rapose when he filed a copyright of this song using Jonico Music. After that the song became a phenomenon after the year 2000 when it exploded all over social media on Youtube.
Overall as parents we believe that the song If You’re Happy and You Know It, was written to ultimately teach both babies and preschoolers to clap your hands. For younger children it can be extremely difficult to physically move their hands at the same time and clap them. It is all about a pattern, and this song has been shown to help tremendously with that. So whether you are new mom, or expecting a baby, or maybe you have a preschooler at home, why not start playing this song at home.? By just simply hearing the repetition of the lyrics, children from the ages 0 to 5 can improve tremendously with their development, their learning techniques, and especially the act of clapping their hands.