I'm always prattling on about the myriad magical ways that singing to our children positively impacts them... This article does it better:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-wednesday-perpetual-memory-0924-story.html

What 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' taught me about children's brain research

chicagotribune.com

When your 11-year-old sings songs from her baby years, you know those baby-brain experts are onto something.

Some day the people sickened by the violence and terror wreaked on us all without warning or reason will fight as hard, yell as loud, and vote as consistently as the people who seem only to be sickened by the thought of having to give up easy access to assault weapons. Until then, I suppose thoughts and prayers will have to suffice.

So, yes, of course my thoughts and prayers go out to the families suffering through the aftermath of this unspeakable tragedy.

And I also pray that some day your right to walk down the street unafraid of random gun violence will be at least equal, in the eyes of our lawmakers, to my right to own an arsenal capable of wiping out a small town.