Growing older means confusion and resistance to change, especially to those familiar elements of childhood we hold near and dear. It’s bittersweet, but often, change is necessary for progress and for ...

Human beings are mimetic. Meaning, we mimic each other. A child sees her parent eating an apple and instinctively both understands and wants to do it themselves. Or we see someone older doing ...

First they came for Pluto. Then math. Now it’s the alphabet! You might not know your ABCs — or be able to sing along anymore. The alphabet song of our youth has been updated, and confused parents are ...

Remember when that new version of the iconic Alphabet Song materialized during the pandemic in 2020? Well, with a new school year closing in, it seems to be going viral again. I saw an article from ...

Many of us are familiar with the alphabet song and its rhythm. However, some kindergarteners at a Winnipeg elementary school are learning their letters though a new version of the classic ABC song.

Lecturer in Music Education and Teaching, University of the Sunshine Coast But the history of this famous song goes back a little further than that. Nobody knows exactly who invented this tune, but we ...

MATT: I just wanted to make a version that, when showing the letters and singing the song to the students, each letter would have equal visual time. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Matt says by slowing down L, M, N, ...

Seven years after the alphabet song got a slowed-down remix from a children’s music channel on YouTube, the internet is declaring: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. One of the first songs most kids ...