Vol. 4 No. S-3 (2022): Volume 4, Issue S-3, Year 2022
Articles

Social Change Thoughts in Children's Songs

Venmuhil N
Tamil Research Centre, Lady Doak College, Madurai-625002, Tamil Nadu, India

Published 2022-07-16

Keywords

  • Children's Songs,
  • Generation,
  • Mental Health,
  • Social Change

How to Cite

N, V. (2022). Social Change Thoughts in Children’s Songs. International Research Journal of Tamil, 4(S-3), 187-196. https://doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s329

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Abstract

Children's minds love, admire, and cherish the songs that the mind enjoys and the heart wants to protect. All the thoughts expressed through songs are deeply rooted in the minds of children. Grown-up adults have imprinted the songs they heard in their childhood as engraved in a green tree. That is why songs occupy a prime position in children's literature. In today's society, which is showing initiatives in economic search, parents who spend time with their children have become less. Mobile phones have taken over the beautiful pastimes of children. As a result, apart from affecting children's physical health and mental health, an environment is created in which they grow up as a socially irresponsible generation. If this situation needs to be changed, children should be given an opportunity to understand the society in which they live from their childhood. Children's songs provide such an opportunity. Children's songs teach personal life, love for other living beings around us, and responsibility towards society. This article emphasises the need to put such valuable works of children's songs into the hands of children and identifies the children's songs that do the work of raising responsible children.

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