Nursery rhymes should be banned, they're violent.?

Question

Goldilocks and the 3 bears, pleaseeeeeee.

She breaks in the house, steals food and violates private belongings.

Humpty Dumpty, omg, poor egg.

He falls and poof, broken, gone, no more. sob

what about the big bad wolf? cruel, I say.

Georgie Porgie should be arrested for being a perv.

what about hensel and gretel story, pure evil, I tell you.

poor witch.

Jack and the Beanstalk, man the list goes on and on.

I think it's time to change the nursery rhymes.

Do you have any more examples?

Answer 1

Oh well, look at cartoons from past and present................

Answer 2

you know that's quite funny, I told my mom a the same thing. I work In a preschool setting, and I agree that most of the nursery rhymes are violent and should be banned

Answer 3

Read the bible that more vilent(not saying it rong to read it )

Answer 4

I don't think anyone even tell nursery rhymes anymore. I know that they didn't do it at school when my kids were little and I never told them the nursery rhymes my mother read to me. They never seemed interested.

I know that a lot of the nursery rhymes have some kind of  "moment in history" story behind the meaning.

Ring around the Rosy is one about some disease that took children lives a long time ago. I don't remember the type of disease I just remember reading about it.

Answer 5

I think there are better "soap boxes" to be on than anti-nursery rhyme.

Answer 6

If you really want to you can buy a book of PC nursery rhymes off of Amazon.com.  True, nursery rhymes are violent and cruel; however, these toned down stories pale in comparison with all the evil and cruelty that occur in the world today.  If you want to truly be horrified about nursery rhymes or fairy tales perhaps you should read the original Grimm's fairy tales.  Those original tales had everything from incest to murder to cannibalism and that's just naming a few themes.  Maybe we need to come up with our own tales to pass down to our children that are a bit more positive.

Answer 7

I agreed 30 years ago, and I didn't read them to my kids. The Brothers Grimm are, well, grim. In school they learned about them, but they were better able to handle them as they then knew the difference between real and pretend and right and wrong. It was good to know about them eventually because there are often references to them in literature.

A different kind of example is the Little Mermaid who gave up her Self for a man. Or Cinderella, or Peter Pan. The psychs have had a lot to say about those last two.

Answer 8

Are you serious? It seems to me you have made more of it than a child ever would. Most children don't care what you read as long as you read to them.. my son never had bad dreams because of them.