Learn to sing "So Much Pee!"
It's finally here: the first instructional video for one of my diaper-changing songs.
Ever wondered how your baby’s diaper got so incredibly full of pee? If your baby could talk, perhaps the truth would go something like this.
Friends have asked me for a long time how to sing the diaper-changing songs in my book, Fatherhood Is Learning, and I’ve always said I’d get to it eventually. So here it is, the first instructional video, for “So Much Pee!” I’ve reprinted the lyrics below.
This is joyfully silly and willfully absurd stuff, but with a serious goal: good humor, emotional connection, and trust between parent and child. As I put it in the book, no matter the situation during those early years of parenting,
there was one diapering resource I could always rely on, if I kept my wits mindfully about me: my own good humor. This primed me to respond good-naturedly to the actual conditions before me, whatever they might be. And by far, singing was the most effective way for me to draw on good humor.1
Though I’m way past the diapering days now, these songs still loom large in how I think about my own early formation as a dad. You can click through here to read the full story about how and why, during my family’s diapering days, I started crafting and singing these songs.
If you’re still in the diapering days of parenting, give this song a try — or, if “So Much Pee!” isn’t your particular cup of tea, may it serve as permission to get silly and absurd for a good cause, in service to your child.
So Much Pee!
How’d you get so much
pee-pee in your diaper,
little, little one,
little, little one?
How’d you get so much
pee-pee in your diaper,
my little, little,
little, little one?
“Well, I took other babies’ diapers—
I wrung ’em into my bucket!
I poured that bucket into my diaper,
and I really, really soaked it!”
How’d you get so much
pee-pee in your diaper,
little, little one,
little, little one?
How’d you get so much
pee-pee in your diaper,
my little, little,
little, little one?
Matthew S. Rosin, “Singing About Poop and Pee,” from Fatherhood Is Learning (2021).