Every child will be tickled at one time or another and this is a happy song about that. Tickling gently is fun but hurting isn’t acceptable and this song sets out the limits. When the giggles start, it’s so tempting to tickle children all the time. But some of them do not like it – so we have taught our little ones to say. ‘Please don’t do that, I do not like it,’ and one must respect such a polite request.