Parents are rightly concerned about certain 'grimm' fairy tales! I also eliminated nursery rhymes such as '3 blind mice', 'piggy on the rail-way' 'sing a song of sixpence' 'humpty dumpty' to name a few from my list of rhymes when my son was a pre schooler. Oh! and not to forget 'Jack and Jill'. I couldn't understand how teachers made children mindlessly repeat these rhymes that on closer examination revealed that ghastly things happened to the characters portrayed- falling, breaking bones, smashing heads and bodies, birds baked alive, blind mice being butchered- tales of horror indeed!
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Replied on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:00 AM
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