"One elephant went out to play, something something something blah la la la." These are the kind of thoughts that run through my head constantly. Over the past month or so Cutie Pie and I have been listening to kids music. You know, nursery rhymes and "Ring-Around-the-Rosie," stuff like that. Cutie Pie seems to love it but my brain is turning to mush.
My inner monologue has been taken over by the evil geniuses at Wee Sing. If I'm not singing silly songs out loud I'm thinking them all day long. I'm being haunted by Little Bunny Foo Foo! It can be very distracting sometimes.
The worst part is that although I have these songs constantly running through my head, I do not seem to be retaining the lyrics. I completely lost my memory while I was pregnant with Cutie Pie and I self-diagnosed myself with pregnesia. However, I am not pregnant anymore. I guess my memory is lost forever.
I have noticed that there have been some changes to the old Nursery Rhymes in the past thirty years. For instance, "Ten Little Indians" has been replaced by "Ten Elephants." I also noticed that "Three Blind Mice" are suspiciously absent from my baby CDs. I guess the old versions had to be edited because they weren't politically correct. Perhaps if it were called "Three Visually Impaired Mice" it would have made the album. I understand that we don't want to hurt any ones feelings but I do think it's sad that our old fashioned nursery rhymes are disappearing.
I've also been thinking about the lyrics to many of the songs we sing to our children. There is a lot of violent and sad stuff out there! "The Little Old Woman Who Lives In a Shoe" is about a neglectful and abusive mother. The classic "Rock-a-Bye Baby" is about an infant whose cradle is placed in a tree for some unknown reason. Then a strong wind knocks the child to the ground. I can only assume that the child suffers the same fate any child might undergo after falling out of a tree.
When I was a child, I sang all the little songs and never gave one thought to what the nursery rhymes meant or if it might offend someone. I hope that my Cutie Pie is able to enjoy his childhood in the same way. I just wish that "Little Bunny Foo Foo" would take a break from hopping around my brain for awhile so I can get some work done.
http://theadventuresofcutiepie.blogspot.com/
My inner monologue has been taken over by the evil geniuses at Wee Sing. If I'm not singing silly songs out loud I'm thinking them all day long. I'm being haunted by Little Bunny Foo Foo! It can be very distracting sometimes.
The worst part is that although I have these songs constantly running through my head, I do not seem to be retaining the lyrics. I completely lost my memory while I was pregnant with Cutie Pie and I self-diagnosed myself with pregnesia. However, I am not pregnant anymore. I guess my memory is lost forever.
I have noticed that there have been some changes to the old Nursery Rhymes in the past thirty years. For instance, "Ten Little Indians" has been replaced by "Ten Elephants." I also noticed that "Three Blind Mice" are suspiciously absent from my baby CDs. I guess the old versions had to be edited because they weren't politically correct. Perhaps if it were called "Three Visually Impaired Mice" it would have made the album. I understand that we don't want to hurt any ones feelings but I do think it's sad that our old fashioned nursery rhymes are disappearing.
I've also been thinking about the lyrics to many of the songs we sing to our children. There is a lot of violent and sad stuff out there! "The Little Old Woman Who Lives In a Shoe" is about a neglectful and abusive mother. The classic "Rock-a-Bye Baby" is about an infant whose cradle is placed in a tree for some unknown reason. Then a strong wind knocks the child to the ground. I can only assume that the child suffers the same fate any child might undergo after falling out of a tree.
When I was a child, I sang all the little songs and never gave one thought to what the nursery rhymes meant or if it might offend someone. I hope that my Cutie Pie is able to enjoy his childhood in the same way. I just wish that "Little Bunny Foo Foo" would take a break from hopping around my brain for awhile so I can get some work done.
http://theadventuresofcutiepie.blogspot.com/
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