Nursery Rhymes

One of my first posts [linked in case you missed it] was about how twisted and dark many of the cheery, happy, sweet-sounding poems, songs and rhymes actually were. TODAY wrote an article about Mother Goose's rhymes, just as I had done about songs we typically sing to our children to get them to smile or giggle or stop crying. The article is a wonderful piece on the histories of these stories and I encourage you to read about them. So the next time you sing or say these words to your children, not only will they get a laugh out of them, but so will you, because you know what they actually mean and can laugh at the fact that we use some of the most messed up stories to get our children to chuckle.

Once upon a time, even Mother Goose had a dark side