In the olden days, the main duty of a thai housewife was to take care of the house and her children and as they didn't have to work outside the home, they had plenty of time to do this. To help her children go to sleep, most mothers would sing them lullabies, gently bedtime songs. Mothers usually placed baby in a cloth or rettan cradle anb song lullabies while rocking the baby to sleep. Lullabies are beautiful melodies that help strengthen the bonds of love between mother and child.