Nursery Rhymes - Friend or Foe?

‘Send for the knife to chop off his head, my fair lady’. When you are a young child you believe what is told to you. You don’t know what is good and what is bad unless told otherwise. For example, if you are brought up in a household in which your parents are warring and using offensive language, you most probably will not grow up to be a gentleman with impeccable manners. Now when you think back to your childhood, some of the memories you have, are of nursery rhymes. Whether it was a bedtime rhyme, or a saying with a moral, you grew up remembering these lines.



The three blind mice have their tails cut off by the farmers’ wife, Jack tumbles down a hill and receives head damage, and Little Tommy Thin hurls a cat into a well. What is the real sch...