Most people have a song that never fails to make them emotional. Whether it's a tune that evokes sad memories or just a melody that tugs at your heartstrings for reasons you can't quite explain, as soon as you hear those opening notes you can't help but get choked up. And as many parents have discovered, this can even happen to babies and toddlers.
In a video posted on June 27, a toddler boy asks his mom to sing him his favorite song ("You Are My Sunshine"). The only problem is that even though he apparently loves hearing it, every time mom sings he has a reaction that absolutely devastates her!
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"Every single night he asks me to sing 'sunshine' but this is also his reaction when I sing it to him...idk what triggers this response but it equally breaks my heart and makes me laugh at the same time," wrote Jillian James . What a sweet little soul! He has so many big feelings...sometimes they just have to come out! Commenters completely understood what he was going through.
"That's his comfort song, I need to cry too sometimes," wrote Summer Lane.
"He just needed a soundtrack for his little crying sesh," wrote 4N4N4S.
"Sometimes it feels good to listen to your favorite song and have a good cry," wrote Brittney.
"On a real level it's like he knows he needs an emotional release and that does it for him," wrote Forgetful Fairy.
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It's true — even though it's super sad for this mom to watch her son sobbing, he's actually doing a great job of regulating his emotions. Having a powerful response to music is a universally human experience, experts say.
Why Does Music Make You Cry?
There hasn't been a tremendous amount of research done on how or why music makes kids emotional — or people of any age, for that matter. But one study found that whether or not music makes you get teary-eyed might reveal something about your personality , according to Psychology Today.
While the majority of people involved in the study reported feeling like crying after hearing music, "researchers found that people who had been moved to tears by music could be clearly separated into two groups: those who felt sadness, and those who felt awe. The majority (63 percent) reported feeling sad when music made them cry, and 36.7 percent reported feeling awe...The participants in the study had been given a psychological test to classify them according to five personality attributes — neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. When the researchers sorted the data, they found that people who ranked high on the neuroticism scale experienced sadness when they had been moved to tears by music, and people who scored high in the openness to experience scale felt like crying because the music provoked a profound sense of awe."
Considering the last line of "You Are My Sunshine" ("please don't take my sunshine away"), it seems like a safe bet that the little boy in this video falls into the sadness category — but you certainly can't blame him!
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