Friday, October 16, 2015

Six Sentence Stories - Tear

With motherhood comes many teaching moments, but sometimes it is child teaching mother.  I'm sharing one of those moments here on my post I'm linking up to the blog hop at Ivy's Six Sentence Stories - Tear.  The post must be written in only six sentences using the prompt tear.

Singing and trying to rock her baby to sleep was her common practice, although usually futile at this point in time. 

Although many little ones that age took long naps, her children must have felt a need to get on with the living and the learning.  This, her second child, had very early language development, and although she about 18 months old, she'd started speaking in short sentences before she was a year old.

Her daughter gazed intently at her as she listened to the words of My Grandfather's Clock being sung.  Then came the chorus and tears began slipping down her daughter's cheeks.  

From that time on, during those early childhood years, she wasn't able to sing that old refrain to her, because of the reaction the chorus brought each time it was sung.


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12 comments:

  1. KristiOctober 16, 2015 at 2:22 PM

    Poor kid. :-) Did you still want a video? How about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWwTNQBRLxw

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    1. Pat BOctober 16, 2015 at 5:13 PM

      Thanks. I just decided to skip the video, but thanks.

      You can give her a hug when you see her. :-)

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  2. UnknownOctober 16, 2015 at 4:00 PM

    Thanks for the link Kristi i had never heard the song before.... Sweet story...and song

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    1. Pat BOctober 16, 2015 at 5:14 PM

      Thanks. Oh, I guess I didn't even think there might be people not familiar with the song.

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  3. GirlieOnTheEdgeOctober 16, 2015 at 5:42 PM

    Isn't that amazing a baby so young can retain the memory, the feeling of a favorite song :) Precious.

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    1. Pat BOctober 18, 2015 at 9:23 PM

      Yes, I thought it was quite amazing. She surprised us in many ways with her abilities.

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  4. messymimiOctober 16, 2015 at 7:01 PM

    It is a bittersweet song, so i can understand a young child being touched by it that way. Excellent story.

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    1. Pat BOctober 18, 2015 at 9:24 PM

      Thank you. I just never expected her to be so touched by the words at such a young age.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 18, 2015 at 5:21 PM

    Oh, Pat, I remember that song so well. It's a very sad song. Music touches emotional places in the brain. A lovely story.

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    1. Pat BOctober 18, 2015 at 9:26 PM

      I read that some of the children's toys had that melody on them, although our children didn't have the toys that did.

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  6. Old EggOctober 18, 2015 at 11:01 PM

    I remember one of my uncles singing this at family gatherings when I was a littly. No tears from me though I must have been made of sterner stuff, I just wondered how the clock knew!

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