Chew Your Food Good

Chew Your Food Good
This month I was working on a riff one day while the kids where eating their lunch. Riley has a tendency to shove allot of food in his mouth @ once so I started to play something completely different. I started singing "chew your food good" and it was one of those moments where the song only took as long to write as it did to play. The kids liked it so I knew I had something. This is a sincere effort in writing something they would enjoy. I also like how a kids' song is not something I've done with the Calendar Project yet.
Recording it was fun. I got the kids to sing and even play a little percussion. That's them shaking the summer squash out of the tambourines. Their little voices kill me. They are just too cute. Ginny watched on while Lennon and Riley helped Dad express the importance of Chewing Your Food Good.

Each year, more than 17,000 infants and children are treated in hospital emergency departments for choking-related incidents, and more than 80 percent of these occur in children aged four years and younger. Airway obstruction death and injury are especially prevalent in children under age four due to anatomy (small airway), natural curiosity and tendency to put objects in their mouths, and incomplete chewing. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, choking in 2001 was highest in infants. (taken from http://www.answers.com/topic/choking?cat=health)
So please Chew Your Food Good!

My Fathers Day was made good by spending it with the three best kids in the world, making music. Thanks Lennon, Riley, and Ginny.
Happy Fathers Day all you dads out there!

Chew Your Food Good