Nursery Rhymes take 2

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Feb 222019
 

Subject: Mindlessly reciting nursery rhymes

Point of Significance: introduces topics such as murder, rape, taxes ect. at an age too young for these topics?

 

Subject: Parent’s trying to protect their kids from the harsh reality of the world

Point of Significance: by introducing the children to the harsh history of the world through nursery rhymes

 

Subject: Parents try to introduce morals to children

Point of Significance: by introducing stories that have a historical opposite of the moral they are trying to teach their child

 

Subject: Nursery rhymes introduce a gateway to imagination

Point of Significance: by  re-purposing historical tragedies as cute rhymes to induce fun imagination

 

Parents ironically introduce bad influences through recreating the purpose of nursery rhymes to coexist with their kids protection from the harsh influences of our world.

 

Prompt: How do Nursery Rhymes undermine Parents attempts to protect their child from bad influences at a young age?