Revisit childhood with 8 Indian lullabies, from Allah Goor and Omanathinkal Kidavo to Aararo Aariro and Chanda Mama Door Ke, in 8 languages.

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 ...

When we think of rocking a baby to sleep, that tranquil glockenspiel timbre omitting endless repeats of Brahms’s lullaby Wiegenlied often enters our collective mind. Indeed, this became something of ...

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, ...

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 ...

It seems intuitive: We bring home a new baby, and as we're awake with them in the middle of the night, we quietly sing lullabies, hoping it will ease the little one into sleep. We continue this ...

On a still night, a soft tune fills a small room. A mother hums as her baby’s fingers curl into her palm. A grandmother rocks a wooden cradle, singing the same song she once sang to her own children.

Analysis: besides helping to get the baby off to sleep at 4am, lullabies have many benefits for both infant and care-giver It's 4am and the baby's crying again. How do you calm your teary-eyed child ...

Four millennia ago an ancient Babylonian wrote down a lullaby sung by a mother to her child. It may have got the baby to sleep, but its message is far from soothing - and this remains a feature of ...

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. Whether you're a ...

Lullabies soothe children to sleep in many cultures, but not all of them are child-friendly. The lyrics can address such topics as dead children and unfaithfulness. This lullaby from Slovenia is one ...