I don't know if at any time when you were little you heard a little song that said “Baby boy, pacifier and crib” from the mouth of your classmates, which was normally aimed at a child whose behavior, for whatever reason, was considered younger children (for having pissed in class, for crying from a fight, ...).
I remember that song from my childhood (they never sang it to me, but I did listen to it several times) as a mockery and I assure you that the recipients did not usually be too happy, more than anything, because they used to sing for several children, at unison, almost accusatory.
Well, I had almost forgotten it, something logical because it has been a few years since I went to school, when a few days ago my 5-year-old son started singing it because: “Baby boy, pacifier and crib”. It left me dumbfounded. I reached down to pick up the eyes from the ground, which had left the orbits, and turned to my wife to ask: Have you heard the same as me?
He didn't sing it to anyone in particular, but he sang it like someone who constantly repeats a bad song in his head (that's what bad songs have ... the worse it is, the more recorded you have left). My fears were confirmed when I heard him sing the wonderful little phrase again and I got a slight air of frustration and anger (I say, light), to see that such nonsense would still exist even now.
I who considered it extinct ... I thought I had died when my generation grew up and it turns out that 5-year-old children, born in 2006, know it too.
Could it be that it passes from child to child in schools and never leaves them? That is, the elders sing it, the little ones learn it and continue singing it until they are older, so the little ones learn it and the wheel goes on and on until today, forming part of the school heritage for decades without ever being able to become extinct.
Could be like this. Too it could be that some father with few lights used the song to laugh at a child, or even his own son and that this one would later use the song to laugh at a smaller child ... It could be, but this hypothesis is even sadder than the first.
The fact is that in addition to the slight anger and the outrage of seeing that the children of now also laugh at their classmates, it was funny to hear it from my son because I immediately made an image of the classmates of his class.
I remembered that boy who took a pacifier until last year, of the girl who was in a stroller everywhere, of which she still cried at noon because her mother did not come to look for her, from which she spent the entire course leaving with the spare clothes because he couldn't stand the pee, of the boy who still wore a diaper at night because he sometimes missed it and I thought: "I don't know who will have sung it, because the majority are worthy". That is to say, children who had just stopped being babies were singing for four newscasts.
Anyway, that's how sad the world is. That's how cruel we get to do to our children, who are able to sing such nonsense to laugh at other children when they are only 5 years old. Afraid it gives me when they are a few years older. I hope I'm wrong.
