i mean who ever heard of a cow jumping over the moon.it would break its neck when it landed,some of them frighten me even now.i wonder who wrote them-a suitable case for treatment
2007-03-28 01:17:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Good question but it's humorous to kid's and also develops imaginative skills i guess.. lol x
2007-03-28 01:20:56 · answer #1 · answered by Laura M 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They make learning fun. You remember a cow jumping over the moon easier than what words you were made to spell in primary school. Some nursery rhymes were tragic, they were usually precautionary tales. If you need to memorise something, make it into a silly song.
2007-03-28 02:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by Holistic Mystic 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You think they are silly because you are looking at them from an adult perspective.A young child lives in a world of fantasy. Anything can happen.It is from a child's perspective that nursery rhymes were written. OK they weren't written by children but by adults trying to imagine they were children.If you were to ask this same question of a 2to3 year old they would not say they were silly. Be a little more sensitive.
2007-03-28 01:38:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
So, who says a cow can't jump over the moon? But I do have my doubts about "humpty-dumpty". They should have made an omlet out of him. What a waste!
My favorite my granny taught me:
Mr. Foster went to Glouster in a pouring rain. He stepped in a puddle up to his middle and he never went back again.
I got a million of um!!!
2007-03-28 05:59:41 · answer #4 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes there are a lot of silly ones and also some pre school picture books have silly stories. They kids learn rhymes by parrot fashion without thinking about what they are saying.
2007-03-28 01:43:54 · answer #5 · answered by holly 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nursery rhymes were used as a way to teach (numbers, letters etc) and to tell of events - I suppose the sillier they were the more likely they were to be remembered. There is certainly an evolution to them
2007-03-28 01:30:50 · answer #6 · answered by gileswendes 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you have no imagination, kids do and it keeps them interested whilst learning, also a lot of nursery rhymes were also political or poked fun at royalty in very subtle ways
2007-03-28 02:33:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of them are actually about historical events. "Ring Around the Rosie" is actually about the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages.
2007-03-28 01:59:22 · answer #8 · answered by : ) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the real question is why nursery rhymes frighten you? Tell me about your relationship with your mother. What did you think of her?
2007-03-28 01:53:42 · answer #9 · answered by Timothy S 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hickory, dickory, dock,
Three mice ran up the clock;
The clock struck one,
And the other two got away with minor injuries.
2007-03-28 01:29:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I know what you mean but does'nt a lot come from victorian times and are about the plauge and stuff like that which you would'nt normally sing to kids about achoo achoo we all fall down (dead it means i think) morbid is'nt it
2007-03-28 01:25:11 · answer #11 · answered by Andrew R 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋