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Title: and we wonder why we got messed up as children!
Post by: reallyME on October 08, 2006, 09:34:11 PM

Here is a Mother Goose ditty that is just DREADFUL, as far as I'm concerned!  Of course, most of the fairy tales that came over from England or wherever, have been cleaned up BIG TIME in order to enter the USA children's little ears.  I don't like knowing what they USED to sound like...usually about abuse and torture, believe it or not!


A MELANCHOLY SONG

Trip upon trenchers,
And dance upon dishes,
My mother sent me for some barm, some barm;
She bid me go lightly,
And come again quickly,
For fear the young men should do me some harm.
Yet didn't you see, yet didn't you see,
What naughty tricks they put upon me?
They broke my pitcher
And spilt the water,
And huffed my mother,
And chid her daughter,
And kissed my sister instead of me.

Title: Re: and we wonder why we got messed up as children!
Post by: Hopalong on October 08, 2006, 09:52:53 PM

Yoicks. I've never seen that one, RM.
But Saturday morning mayhem in cartoons has replaced books for most little ones, unfortunately.

I think myth and fairy tales are gory, but at least reading them instead of mouth-breathing in front of the tube stimulates kids' imaginations and helps them become more fluent readers...

 :?
Hops

Title: Re: and we wonder why we got messed up as children!
Post by: moonlight52 on October 08, 2006, 10:43:33 PM

Hey Guys How about my favorite Fairy Tale author Hans Christian Anderson................................

The princess and the pea
Thumbelina
The little matchgirl
The will-o-the wisp
The little mermaid
The snow queen
the emperor's new clothes
The loveliest rose in the world

My mom read these to me the children were all the hero's in these fairy tales  :D

Brothers Grim was scary stuff though

Love from
moonlight

Title: Re: and we wonder why we got messed up as children!
Post by: Portia on October 09, 2006, 11:56:05 AM

...a good reason not to get into debt! from the bells of the churches of London:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons

and a kids' party game.

Title: Re: and we wonder why we got messed up as children!
Post by: Stormchild on October 09, 2006, 01:25:27 PM

a little bit of history...

http://www.mothergoose.com/History/mgStory.htm

And an excerpt from Bruno Bettelheim on The Uses of Enchantment:

http://www.creativeresistance.ca/communitas/the-uses-of-enchantment-bruno-bettleheim.htm