Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull our little ones to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle to the ground?
2006-11-26 07:11:33 · 12 answers · asked by Broken_Inside 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
"Why do the schools teach kids "Ring around the Posy" It is a song ment for the Black Plauge that broke out in Europe. Killing everyone. Not too cool huh? "
because schools these days only bring kids sadness and deppression
2006-11-26 07:17:42 · update #1
Walk the floor with a teething baby for three hours and the kid is lucky if that's all your singing. But look at all the nursery rhymes and you will find that they are, for the most part, political statements of the day. Little Jack Horner was an embezzler. Mary, Mary, quite contrary was Mary Queen of Scots who butchered anyone she even thought might betray her. London Bridge is falling down was actually about London Bridge crumbling because of lack of repair and misuse of funds. Ring around the rosy is about the plague and herbs people used to carry in hopes of warding off the disease. Do a web search on nursery rhymes and you'll learn lots of good stuff.
2006-11-26 07:22:27 · answer #1 · answered by Lynn K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that song is more for the like 6 months old and older where your playing with them and bring them down fast. It's like a rush we get on carnival rides.
Why do the schools teach kids "Ring around the Posy" It is a song ment for the Black Plauge that broke out in Europe. Killing everyone. Not too cool huh?
2006-11-26 07:15:31 · answer #2 · answered by peggin_beast 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or they regale their delicate wee'uns with such inappropriate ditties as "Ring around the roses" (a song about the Black Death), or "Pop goes the weasel" (the story of the South Sea Bubble stock disaster)!
What is wrong with them?
Perhaps these songs are supposed to subliminally warn children that (contrary to what their parents are telling them) the world is a horrible place, and sooner or later something awful is going to happen!
2006-11-26 07:16:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just a song. A soft song. And soft songs helps soothe babies. Then when they are soothed they will go to sleep.
2006-11-26 07:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by jensterj4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And Humpty Dumpty is an egg. Fairy tales and religion have always been brutal.........And both are allowed to be continued.
2006-11-26 07:26:08 · answer #5 · answered by iyamacog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was an old lullaby that people used to sing to their babies.
If it offends you don't sing that to your children.
2006-11-26 07:14:46 · answer #6 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have 4 children,and made up my own lullabies...
2006-11-26 07:13:02 · answer #7 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't sing that, i sing hush little baby to my cousin and the baby i baby-sit
2006-11-26 07:19:32 · answer #8 · answered by sam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh please like the child really understands what your singing, and if so, they are too old for that type of lullabye anyway.
2006-11-26 07:15:01 · answer #9 · answered by flashpro 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered that! I have no idea why though it's so weird.
2006-11-26 07:14:55 · answer #10 · answered by gigglewabbit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋