Songs About Growing Up

Looking for songs about growing to express your feelings to your children? Want to wish a graduating friend all the best for the future with songs about growing up? Read on and find a treasure of best songs about growing up.
Songs About Growing Up
You always experience mixed feelings when you see little children grow up. You are proud of your child and want to wish him or her all the luck and fortune in the world. Yet, on the other side, the hidden parent inside you cries inconsolably wanting the time to stand still for eternity and letting kids remain kids, forever. We see our children grow up in many ways. When our little baby begins to crawl, it is a joyous moment. When the toddler begins to walk, it is a achievement. When you hear the first word spoken by your baby, it becomes a memory. When you say good bye to your toddler at their first day at school, you begin to dream about their successful academic future. The day your kid turns eleven, it is a moment of great happiness. And the sweet sixteen party, we see the image of a beautiful woman or a handsome man in 'daddy's little girl' or 'mamas little boy'. Graduation day is an exhilarating moment that is beyond words. I can go on and on about the various stages that one sees their children, siblings, protégé or loved ones, etc. growing up to. Know more on graduation poems.

Music is one of the best way to express the emotions felt on such an enlivening moment. Songs about growing up is an apt way of getting your feelings reach the heart of the listener. There are many songs about children growing up written and sung by renowned artists. You have a wide array of best songs about growing up to choose from and play for your loved one. If you are looking for kids songs about growing up, then the following list of songs about growing up will prove to be very handy. Know more on poems about life.

List of Songs About Growing Up
As I mentioned earlier, there are many kids' songs about growing up. Let us go through the list of songs about growing up by dividing the songs into various 'genres'.

Songs About a Boy Growing Up
A joyous moment for parents is to see their young boy turn into a confident, strong and handsome man. It is always heart warming to see your 'little pet' grow up and begin a journey of his own and climb the steps of success. The best way to give a loving piece of advice and a word of care to your boy is through the lyrics of the following beautiful songs, about a boy growing up.

List of Songs About a Boy Growing Up
  • The Walk - Sawyer Brown
  • That's My Job - Conway Twitty
  • The Spirit of a Boy - Randy Travis
  • Where Corn Don't Grow - Travis Tritt
  • Red Ragtop - Tim McGraw
  • Tough Little Boys - Gray Allen
  • The Best DayGeorge Strait
  • Half the Man - Brad Pisley
  • There Goes My Life - Kenny Chesney
  • I Am Nothing - Geremy Camp
  • Holy Moment - Matt Redman
  • Proud Father - Jon McLaughlin
  • What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
  • I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
  • Never Die Young - James Taylor
  • Father and Son - Cat Steevens
  • Good Riddance - Green Day
  • Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon
  • The Riddle - Five For Fighting
  • Ready, Set, Go - Tokio Hotel
  • Star - Bryan Adams
  • Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
  • Sweet Child of Mine - Guns n Roses
  • Tough Little Boys - Harry Chaplin
  • Growin' Up - Bruce Springsteen
  • Hard Earned Smile - David LaMotte's
  • Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
Songs About a Girl Growing Up
The 'little bunny', who always ran up to her daddy with tears in her eyes and the belief in her mind, that her daddy will sort out all her problems, is growing up. She is no longer a 'little bunny' and has turned in to a gorgeous young lady. The following songs about a girl growing up will surely leave her a with a memory that will be cherished all her life.

List of Songs About a Girl Growing Up
  • Don't Take the Girl - Tim McGraw
  • Daddy Girl - Red Sovine
  • Butterfly Kisses - Bob Carlyle
  • I Hope You Dance - Leann Womack
  • Holes in the Floor of Heaven - Steve Wainer
  • Always Be My Baby - Sara Evans
  • Let Then Be Little - Billy Deans
  • Mary's Song - Taylor Swift
  • There Goes My Life - kenny Chesney
  • I Loved Her First - Heartland
  • Cinderella - Steven Curtis Chapman
  • And My Wish - Rascal Flatts
  • In My Daughter's Eyes - Martina McBible
  • My Little Girl - Tom McGraw
  • Get Ready, Get Set, Don't Go - Billy Ray Cyrus ft Miley Cyrus
  • Don't Blink - Kenny Chesney
  • Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
  • My Daughter's Growing Up - Bill Engvall
  • Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby Goldsboro
  • It'll Come Back - Red Sovine
  • At Seventeen - Janis Ian
  • Find Your Wings - Mark Harris
  • May I Have This Dance? - Scott Krippayne
  • Daughters - John Mayer
  • Father and Daughter - Paul Simon
These are a few kids' songs about growing up. There are few more songs about children growing up like:
  • The Kids - Tom Paxton
  • This Used to be My Playground - Hair
  • Two Little Boys - Linda Rondstat
  • Stay Young - Patty Griffin
  • Back When I Was Four - Jeffrey Lewis
  • I'm an Adult Now - The Pursuit of Happiness
  • I Believe I Can Fly - R Kelly
  • We go Together - Grease
  • Cat's in the Cradle - Harry ChaplinThese are a few songs about growing up. Parents take a lot of pain and trouble to bring up their children right and do everything they possibly can, to fulfill all their needs. You may have all your differences with your kid, but at the end, it's their happiness that matters. When you are celebrating an important aspect of their life like growing up, songs about growing up will help get the message of love and care through. As far as my kids are concerned, they will be treated with their mother's favorite song about growing up, by Doris Day:

    'Que sera, sera.
    Whatever will be, will be.
    The future's not ours to see.
    Que sera, sera.
    What will be, will be ......'.

By Batul Nafisa Baxamusa
Published: 10/23/2009
 
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