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Speaking of nursery rhymes… Veronica just sent me the link to the Christian Mother Goose book. I think this is a very bad book, not only because it makes Christians come off as horrible rhymers who enjoy dressing up in ridiculous costumes, but also because I can just imagine the day when the poor little owner of this book comes home from kindergarten crying because he learned that Humpty Dumpty actually shattered into a thousand pieces and the “Three kind mice” are also blind and had their tales chopped off.
Add this one to my unregistry.
>Wait a minute – did you catch the bit in there about telling the stories to her sons at bedtime via walkie talkie? While she lounged in the bathtub? Well, that certainly sounds like quality family time to me!
>Yep, I agree…They may be a little graphic, but Nursery Rhymes were created for a reason…life ain’t always peaches and cream!! Some kids are lucky enough to NEED the rhymes to show them that. They should just come up with new ones instead of trying to sugarcoat the old ones.
>thats horrible. I hope no one buys that book.wowsad sign of times, eh?
>My favorite nursery rhyme/kid song was Oh My Darlin’. It was until recently that I realized what the song was actually about. The man let’s his darlin Clementine die, but things end happily once he gets to make out with her little sister. Gotta love it!
>Wrong. That’s it. Just…wrong.
>Why do we have to change everything to be so PC these days? Tom & Jerry get in trouble for smoking cigars. Mother Goose gets editted for her graphic nature. Warner Brother’s gets critisized for dropping a safe on a coyote. It’s just ridiculous!
>This is not a new book. I owned The Christian Mother Goose book as a child in the ’80’s. “Normal” nursery rhymes are so mean and cruel, what is the harm in making them seem a little less cruel and a little more child-friendly? I had the regular mother goose book too, but I always preferred this one.
>Torie, Torie, Torie…Why not expose them to mean and cruel now, in the comfort of their own home?They’ll thank you for it later, mark my words.
>I never even comprehended the violence of them until I started reading them to my kids. They were just rhymes and fun poems. Peter Pan is also pretty bad. My mother just sent a copy for my daughter. We still read them though because she likes it. I think so many things are much worse for kids than nursery rhymes. Just let them be:)
>What the Hell?She lounged in the bubble bath and told the stories to her kids via walkie talkie?So, it’s confirmed, she’s a NUT case who’s not any better mother than the next.Anyway, nursery rhymes are SUPPOSED to scare the crap out of kids and make them think to behave and to be careful of strangers.Then they won’t be so shocked when they learn to read and open up a newspaper and see what people are REALLY capable of.
>My brief encounter with the Christian Mother Goose led me to identify it is revolting, pathetic and ignorant. Give me a break!!!
>I heard Donald Duck is banned in some countries because he doesn’t wear pants. Mmmmm…. duck porn.
>I once read an alternate version of Harry Potter where Harry was portrayed as the devil and everything he did was cruel and evil. It completely reversed the universal themes of love, friendship and brotherhood that make the Potter series so wonderful. The accompanying artwork was crude and depicted Harry being cruel to animals and Hermione behaving in a very slutty fashion. This book was for sale through a religious book association. Other titles for sale included “Help Mom, There’s a Liberal Under my Bed” and those ultra-violent “End Days” video games. I was so upset I actually sent the Potter info to Scholastic Publishing in case they wanted to take legal action. And before anyone shrugs this off as fringe, or not germane to this particular conversation – I should tell you I had a discussion with one of my neighbors about the Harry Potter series. She refused to allow her children to even read them. When I asked why – she said her pastor had preached a sermon on the subject telling his (rather large) congregation that the Harry Potter Books promoted witchcraft and devil worship and taught children to hate Christianity. She had, of course, never read the books herself – and nothing I could say would change her mind about them. People believe what they want to believe – and they see the world through their own sets of blinders. I don’t approve of changing what someone else has written to suit individual beliefs. If you don’t like it – you can always choose to adopt my neighbor’s attitude – though I think you’ll be doing your children a monumental disservice.
>Oh, brother. That’s just sad.I love reading nursery rhymes. The whole point is that they are fun for us big kids to read. Take that fun away and what’s the point.
>God put Humpty together again! Yay God! It’s a good thing God works exactly like that, isn’t it? Oh wait…
>Wow, way to sanitize something pretty harmless and make it so namby-pamby and sickly-sweetly dull as to render the reader utterly without the will to live! Kudos to you, weird walkie-talkie-bubble-bath lady! Your children probably spent years in therapy!I loved Mother Goose stories as a child and refuse to even consider subjecting my child to this kind of drivel. Yech!