¿Un Problema?

After getting through a particularly difficult math problem yesterday I found myself fighting the urge to sing the congratulatory Dora the Explorer song. Why is that? Esther suggested that perhaps it was the result of my regular babysitting schedule for children under the age of five but is that really enough to make the average person inclined to sing pre-school songs in a high school setting? I suppose that in the grand scheme of things my inclination to sing “We did it. We did it. We did it. Hooray!” is really the least of my worries but does it have larger ramifications? I realized that night, as I was watching two children under the age of five, that I was getting more into their videos (Dora among them) than they were; it’s not as though I would choose to watch Dora or “Signing Time With Alex and Leah” on my own but whereas the children were content to simply let Dora stand on the screen staring blankly for a few moments   before answering her own question I was disposed to tell her that her apple was rojo (sometimes even while giving the sign that I had just learned for red). In the context of caring for small children this seems normal; encouraging children to play along and learn from videos, books, toys and the lark is actually one of the reasons I was “hired” (if you will) for that job but if I’m singing Dora songs to myself at school I have to wonder: at what point does babysitter mode shut off? I’ve been told by multiple friends and personality tests that I have a nurturing personality; it’s in my nature to play the protector and try to mother those around me but at a certain point such actions must surely be inappropriate. Christ on a bike, I don’t even have children yet! Don’t these things only get worse with the addition of something you had to birth? What then? And, in the mean time, where might one find an off switch for such things?