My mom, who works at an elementary school, observed me singing The Alphabet Song to my son the other day, and told me I was singing it wrong.
"You can't be serious," I told her.
"Well, you have to put a pause in between L and M and N and O and P now," she replied.
Blank stare from me.
"We sing to the kids that way so they won't mistake 'LMNOP' as one letter. Oh, and don't say 'and' before the Z. Don't want him to think 'and' is a letter, too." Then she proceeded to sing the song with the weird pauses and it really sounded so odd that I had to turn up the radio and listen to something else entirely.
When did we have to start dumbing down the ABCs?!? What is happening? Do kids today really think "LMNOP" is one letter? I bet if I asked a thousand 30-somethings like me if they were ever confused by the ABC song they'd probably feel insulted that I asked the question.
Please tell me I am not alone in thinking this is just a little bit out there...
emily doesn't think LMNOP is 1 letter but i think she thinks it is 2 or 3 - she somehow mumbles them to something I can't make out. so maybe your mom is on to something! :)
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