I make no secret that making a difference in the life of kids is what truly brings me joy. Many of you are so used to me posting on serious topics that I thought I would share with you a part of me that only kids and the moms I help see. For those of you that read “The Story of B” on my website, many of you wrote me laughing about my friend whose daughter would not go to bed without her call from Elmo and how when her young mom was in the hospital with cancer, sometimes I would get a call just before going on stage and the rest of the crew would look at me like I was nuts talking to this kid pretending to be Elmo just so she would sleep. One of you wrote me just laughing saying you just couldnt imagine it. Well this year my readers have expanded into many nations and one of the single moms has a 7 year old daughter that was really having a hard time coming home from school crying because she was always being bullied. Her mom felt like a failure not knowing how to help her and the grandmother who also lived with them was also worried. So I asked her mom did her daughter watch Disney movies and she said yes and gave me a list of her daughters favorite movies which included The Little Mermaid. Since they are a half day ahead I took a little break from my work and recorded two Little Mermaid songs in my best silly impersonation of Sebastian the crab. Even in countries where English is a second language, kids know Disney songs like the back of their hand. But in the two songs when I did “Three Little Birds” and “Under The sea” , I changed the words so that Sebastian was talking to her saying “Dont Worry about a thing... cos every little thing is gonna be alright.” I emailed the songs to her mom who loaded them on her phone and let her daughter hear them. Little did I know the impact it would have. She gave me a nickname and started calling me her Dad Red Crab and said to everyone “I am going to make Dad Red Crab so proud of me. I will not cry anymore about the bad things other kids say.” She started singing that “Three Little Birds” song everyday, has become a star pupil in her class and started standing up to the bullies and protecting the other kids that were being bullied. She said to her mom “my Dad Red Crab loves me so much to send me a special song and I never want him to be disappointed in me.” It frightened me at first and then I just started to cry. I had no idea what a simple gesture would do to a child in another land that I really did not know. Now all the kids in school are always asking to hear her songs from Dad Red Crab. Even the teachers have asked for copies because the kids love it. So in the weeks before Christmas I made the silliest Dad Red Crab album I could think of. I wrote original songs in my little home studio, packaged up the discs and mailed them off. This is the crazy side of me that my kids knew from the day they were born, that I missed so much when my ex played games with my relationship with them, and that I held inside for so long because it just brought back too many painful memories to let the Crazy Dad Neo out again. But seeing the change it made in this little girls life and working on this project has been a very healing thing for me after all these years. So here is a sample of the madness that kids in my life deal with. Dont say you werent warned. Lol. Enjoy. youtube/watch?v=FvIpuCIvdGw
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 01:19:30 +0000
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