I love discovering songs about parenting on FAWM. They always feel like an intimate peek into someone's real life, and it's a category that isn't as available in the wider world. They also stick in my head. I thought it might be fun to gather them up in a thread.

@nancycunning well you already know my love for a good parenting song - yours is an absolute beauty: https://write.fawm.org/songs/24343.

And here's one from @brisk and I to go with it: https://write.fawm.org/songs/22398

Here's one I did in a skirmish during FAWM 2016 called Sweet Baby Dream.

https://m.soundcloud.com/johns-95/sweet-baby-dream

I think I kept the children out of my mind this FAWM! But here's one from a previous one that I quite like still:

https://soundcloud.com/hypnotist/nobodys-maid?in=hypnotist/sets/fawm-2019

Here's a list of a lot of parenting songs I've heard and enjoyed this FAWM...
The Good Night Song @lorlasswell
https://write.fawm.org/songs/22288

Boomerang @tangle @adforperu https://write.fawm.org/songs/24184

Parental Theory of Relativity (A Mature Married Kind of Love)
@alfapenguin https://write.fawm.org/songs/14812?highlight=married+love

Life with Compression @jacobwakeup https://write.fawm.org/songs/16094

There Goes My Heart @loveonamixtape https://write.fawm.org/songs/17339

Broken Car @emkaydeebee and son https://write.fawm.org/songs/20830

Days Worth Forgetting @charliecheney https://write.fawm.org/songs/19731
Also with @leepat https://write.fawm.org/songs/20049

Again Again Again @nancycunning
https://write.fawm.org/songs/18604

Don't Put Your Food Where It Doesn't Belong @sarahdevalliere https://write.fawm.org/songs/15561

the @fourtracktape collaboration Filthy Monkey @elesimo @vomvorton @wobbiewobbit @wehappyfew and son https://write.fawm.org/songs/19810?highlight=filthy+monkey

Once You Are a Mother (Lyrics - collaboration welcome) @cindyrella
https://write.fawm.org/songs/14627

Rotes Flugzeug (Red Plane) @reklov https://write.fawm.org/songs/13018
and also with @amandaroseriley https://write.fawm.org/songs/17739

My Two Stars (Ophelia's Song) @sarahdevalliere https://write.fawm.org/songs/21640

Whole White Moon @davidtaro @brisk https://write.fawm.org/songs/22398

Like God Does @jeff9 @nancycunning https://write.fawm.org/songs/21283

Lost Soulmate @tamsnumber4 https://write.fawm.org/songs/15775

Thanks for including me. Shout out to all the music-making parents. <3

The song that started me writing (as an adult) a few years ago was about mortality and parenting and love.

“Stardust”
https://youtu.be/9vKNERC_62k

Here is one:
https://youtu.be/QIdrdkx4D78

Wow. @newukenewyork what an amazing first song to have written. I love that quiet feel like being up in the middle of the night trying not to wake the baby. And how you turn that exhaustion of parenting on its side with the idea of not being able to stand missing a moment. Beautiful. I’m so glad you’ve kept it up and the at you found FAWM.

Here's mine: https://write.fawm.org/songs/13030

I have a #parentfolk song called "Just Gone." https://write.fawm.org/songs/19252

When The Kids Come Home https://write.fawm.org/songs/21390 my collab with @metalfoot is a song about parenting

In Our Squeaky Rocking Chair

Lullaby - https://write.fawm.org/songs/14082

Liz turned it into a rockin' fun song - https://write.fawm.org/songs/21910

@lowhum and @savvyaz and @fearlessflight2014 - I enjoyed listening to your songs last week, and then to @rocketgrrrl @danvaillancourt @wannabesongstress and @metalfoot this morning. I also came across Finder of Things by @eas3637
https://write.fawm.org/songs/18781 today.

And two more #momcore songs from @loveonamixtape and friends
A Soft Place to Land with @edsmaronmusic
https://write.fawm.org/songs/15054

Revenge of the Pineapple with @dreamscuba
https://write.fawm.org/songs/24201