You don’t need to stop singing lullabies once a child gets older either – lullabies as part of a routine, and to connect, can be valuable to children as old as four or five-years-old.

Not unlike some fairy tales, some lullabies can even serve as a warning to children to behave, or some ill may befall them. In Japan, the Takeda Lullaby (Takeda no komoriuta) has been around for ...

Why do people sing lullabies? Uno kept asking himself this question while travelling around the world. He knew, of course, that they are sung to send children to sleep. But he wondered if there ...