In the 1920s, the poet Federico García Lorca heard a woman in Granada sing a lullaby to her child and was struck by the sadness of the song. In a lecture delivered in Madrid in 1928, he observed that ...
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We think of lullabies as a sweet way of easing children into sleep. But the power of a lullaby can go further — to comfort, and to heal, even under the most difficult circumstances. Sponsor Message ...
In cultures around the world, the songs that coax kids to sleep are windows into parents’ hopes, fears, and dreams for the future. living-lullabies-17Altanzul Sukhchuluun and her daughter, Khulan, ...
Singing to a child is as important to the singers as the listeners – something parents should remember as we seek to quell our raging anxiety When my eldest daughter was just a few months old, I threw ...
Mary Cassatt’s 1891 "Mother’s Kiss" shows a loving parent’s touch. Lullabies also soothe, hands-free.Credit: Granger, NYC We are at our cutest as infants. We’re most helpless then, too. But every ...
A new study by Marieve Corbeil, a doctoral candidate at Université de Montréal, has confirmed something parents and caretakers have known intuitively for thousands of years: lullabies are the best way ...
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Lullabies. We all know one. Whether we were sung one as a baby or now sing one to our own children. Often, they're used to help babies gently fall asleep. But lullabies can be more than that. They can ...