If you delve deeply enough into stories by the Brothers Grimm, you will discover that a majority of their stories are about violence and horrible ways of getting murdered. Yet these stories are read to our children as "kid" stories, sometimes right before bed as bedtime stories. Many things that we deep to be childish have histories that are nothing short of horrifying or simply surprising.
Nursery rhymes are no exception. Some of the very first rhymes that kids learn are really about events in history, usually satirizing the royal and political realities of the period. For some reason, the messages behind nursery rhymes have all but become obsolete, and today these rhymes are sometimes called nonsense rhymes. So what is the real message behind well-known nursery rhymes?
To find out more about the origins of Mother Goose, Rock a bye baby, Little Miss Muffet, and more, read the article.
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