Am I Wrong For Nixing This Song...

[WImom]

One of my DCB's who is 3y came in last week saying his grandma and grandpa taught him a new song. He also always says that another DCG - 3y is his best friend.
So he starts singing the song... DCB and DCG sitting in a tree - KISSING! First comes love....(you know the rest).

So all the other kids thought the song was just great and keep asking him to sing it again. I just think it's a little inappropriate for him to be singing it at 3 years old. What do you think? I didn't want to hurt the kids feelings so after the 4th time singing it I just asked him to sing a different song for a while (he likes to sing a lot).

Today he wasn't here and some of the kids were talking about the song (I was hoping they forgot) and they wanted to know why they couldn't sing it. I just said I didn't think it was a good song for 3-4y old's to sing. Would you do the same?

[SilverSabre25]

Yeah I probably would. I don't like that song anyway since it comes off very mocking and mean (or at least, is used that way usually).

It's also one of those things that once learned, is very very difficult to excise from the children's vernacular.

I'm very glad my 5.5 year old hasn't picked this one up from school yet.

[preschoolteacher]

I think it's really important for boys and girls to be friends with each other. I would discourage this song, just like I would discourage someone from calling my son's girl playmates his "girl friends" because it teaches kids that any interaction with a member of the opposite sex means they are "in love."

I also wouldn't encourage the kissing, dating, marriage thing at a young age--kids are growing up younger and younger these days, and what is cute at age 3 may lead to believing it's time for a real girlfriend at age 10, and whatever else comes with it shortly after. I'd prefer for my children to stay children for as long as they can!

[rmc20021]

Well...here's one for ya. My 3 yo dcg told me today she likes to watch baby movies. I thought she must be talking about little kids shows so I asked her which movies she likes.

She told me "the ones about babies where the mom's push the babies out". This isn't the first time she's mentioned this type of thing. She's talked before about when she was born and there was blood on her and her mom.

I think that's too much info for 3 yo's

[Cradle2crayons]

My daughter who is 10 now, has always been the type who asks a lot of questions... And she's always been very interested in science.... Well I'm a nurse... And although her little brother was adopted when she was five, she asked me then where little man came from... I explained in little girls terms.... Well I've always watched the baby birthing shows and so has she. Well, at least since she was that age. Personally I have no problems with my personal kids watching that show, but I am sure it's the ones that don't show privates etc. both of my kids know where babies come from, just age appropriate. I don't let dck watch tv only rarely right at pickup but what they watch at home isn't my concern.

[Cradle2crayons]

On a brighter note, when my child was three and had her ADHD assessment, she blurted out to the doctor that she had a boyfriend and she was going to marry him one day and all kinds of stuff. So the doc asked her how she was going to get married at three when she can't drive, and she said " oh my mom will drive us" where she figured that I don't know. But kids say the funniest things. Prior to that was her dads and mine wedding anniversary and I remember her asking something about when we got married and Whalah suddenly she was getting married

[jenn]

If it makes you uncomfortable, then don't allow it. I have one that likes to sing "I'm sexy and I know it".