Nursery rhymes (童谣, 童謡, 동요)

When MJ and I have a child, that child is going to have some high expectations lumped onto her (fairly or unfairly, I'm not trying to be a Tiger Dad but there are just some things we hope to have our child do) such as: learn different languages, and be raised (at least) bilingual. If the baby can handle it, hopefully trilingual: MJ has expressed her desire to have both sets of grandparents be able to speak to the child (mine in Chinese, and hers in Korean). That's going to be a tall task, though, as I don't speak very good Korean (MJ has remarked that my Korean is VERY basic... and MJ's Chinese is in the early stages, let's say). I imagine the baby will pick up English quickly enough, but in America there are some traditional ways to start baby off in the language, with nursery rhymes being a key component: quick little poems that rhyme to teach children basic words. There are some common ones I didn't even consider nursery rhymes but I realize now, duh...Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are." It might be tough also because MJ wasn't raised in this country, and missed the class on nursery rhymes, like Jeopardy had a question about "Old McDonald" the other day, and she thought it had to do with McDonald's the fast food restaurant!!! Luckily this generation of Americans also isn't intimately familiar with nursery rhymes, as The Floor contestants evidence regularly, and even Jeopardy contestants have some trouble with the harder ones like "Little Boy Blue (fell asleep in a haystack)", Old Mother Hubbard (gave the dog a bone), Jack be Nimble (Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick). Yea, now then that I think about it, these nursery rhymes are a little difficult, and the vocabulary isn't the most basic level like A-apple, B-boy level. Candlestick? Nimble? Haystack? I guess these were old English rhymes that people thought would be ubiquitous in a person's life, now they've been phased out due to technology. Nowadays the easier ways to get kids attention are like the Baby Shark song with consistent patterns of letters like doo-doo-doo-doo and members of the family. Easy to remember, and actually the tune was started by a Korean company called pinkfong! Other languages have nursery rhymes too! 風婆婆 and something called "風來啦" all are good nursery rhymes to teach kids the language early and get all the Chinese tones correctly, which I feel like is more important than English when it comes to hashing all 4 different ways to say seemingly the same word like "bu" or "bo." The one thing I look forward to doing is reading to baby, but also learning Korean with baby! I'm ready for some Korean nursery rhymes and finding out how little kids learn Korean! I've already learned some children's games and children's songs through this educational program called "Squid Game" on Netflix, time to learn some fun ditties! Realistically, the baby would probably tire of speaking in different languages to different parents, so we would have to manage expectations, but hopefully my gene of loving to learn will pass through! I always just liked learning more words, adding more to my brain, feeling more empowered. Probably the same impulse that bodybuilders have to get more swole, I have the same impulse to always be learning, exercising the brain. I'm actually really jealous of babies, having a fresh brain to absorb everything and not littered with all the junk I've put into it over the years. Babies probably have the "morning brain" you get after a full night's sleep and brain ready to absorb new information, except babies have it all the time, just absorbing everything like a sponge. I have that brain for "simple information" like words and their counterparts in other languages and maybe the faces of certain people, but not so much complex thoughts like deep legal theory or physics concepts unfortunately. Nursery rhymes work though!