Nursery Rhymes are not all that sweet?

Did you know that most of Nursery Rhymes are harming your child!!!!jack and jill went up the hill (weird you will never find a well on a hill).....


Humpty dumbty sat on a wall (Did you know majority all children try to make other children fall to see if they actually break)......


there was an old lady who lived in a shoe......(this poems states clearly that she never fed her children and used to hit them before she tucked them to bed).....


hushababy, baby they cradle is green: father is a nobleman, mothers' a queen : sisters's lady and wear a gold ring: brothers a drummer and drums for the king (now don't you find this poem odd, if mother's a queen why is the father a nobleman and sisters a lady????? and seems like the king sure is someone else.


there are many such poems like pussy cat pussy cat, ding dong bell, there was a crooked man, goosey goosey gender, rock a bye baby on the tree top, peter peter pumpkin eater and many more.

Nursery Rhymes are not all that sweet?
They were written in a different era with different sensibilities. We don't understand all the gentle wordplay and senses of the words.





Also, I think it is beneficial to expose children to scary ideas in the safety and comfort of a mother singing to them so that they can work through those ideas without sheer terror.
Reply:Well if everyone didn't have dirty minds now a days they would be just fine!!!!! Plus I don't think 5 yr olds realize what they are reading or hearing. They don't take it literal!!!
Reply:hm i supose i see ur point...
Reply:well i actually had two books on nursery rhymes and i read them as a child. i never committed a murder and am a pretty well adjusted citizen. most of these rhymes i actually never fully understood until highschool where we touched base on their origins. apparently humpty dumpty was based on a king. most of these rhymes come from olde english history and mean nothing but gibberish to little kids who are trying their best to read words and expand vocabulary.





i mean... if i had the choice, i'd allow my child to read nursury rhymes over playing gears of war on xbox360.
Reply:5 year old take them and face value it is the older parents who look into them to far and ruin them by twisting them into some sick perverted thing, get your mind ut of the gutter please
Reply:interesting, i never knew...





not most kids wud really understand...(i hope)





thanks for enlightening me!
Reply:how about hansel and gretel? and billy goats gruff.



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