Classic Nursery Rhymes

Classic Nursery Rhymes

For decades and decades, we’ve been enjoying the tune, funny words, most of all the beat of those Classic nursery rhymes. It’s now our time to teach these for our children, and then to grand children. Time keeps on going with the repetition of these classics. This new era, we hear those words we sang in the classic as name of a mystery novel or a crime thriller movie. Did we ever happen to think about one such hidden fact in the rhymes that actually made us laugh, dance, jump and enjoy? What have we been singing all these years?

Humpty Dumpty
There is no mention of the word “egg” in the rhyme. Then from where was the picture of humpty dumpty derived? Some believe that in the term refers to a clumsy person or a brandy, which put together, gives a fall down drunk. The other aspects of the rhymes are all true, soldiers and horses perform surgery to drinker’s spine. This is something we need to know about the Old England’s vocational and medical school.

Jack and Jill
Did you ever give a thought as to why anyone would travel up the hill for water? While water flows down much easily. Each ones interpretation brings out laughter and sometimes tears.

Rock-a-by-baby
The hidden story in this classic nursery rhyme hails from early USA settlers, now Native Americans, rocking their baby’s cradles in those suspended branches from the big tress. Another perception to this is that, with tress as mother, blowing wind being her contractions, the bough as breaking water of mother, and the cradle being the placenta. Thus making the poem not only about life instead of death, but gives a feel good bed time story for kids.

London Bridge is falling down
Not many rhymes convey gigantic structure damage in any toe tapping rhymes or playtime activities. So what’s with this poem about the destruction of a bridge burring children under bridge’s foundation or it’s just naturally deteriorated over time adding some excitement to the nursery rhymes.

Above are just a few out of the big bunch of classic nursery rhymes available across the world. This first experience to the poems for children is always a memorable one and the illusions behind it are just for adults. At very rare case, these illusions make an impact on infants. The words and their meaning is hardly of any matter to the kids. Their main attention is towards the beat and tune, to get along with it, words are being memorized.

Like the way we find the author and then start reading the story, it’s with these tunes and beats children pick up the rhymes. Adapting to classic nursery rhymes is much easy for kids as the person singing them are with high comfort as they’re used to much better than the jingles in market recently.

Irrespective of the language, words, hidden meaning of those words, or even the story behind, children get impressed with the tune, kids mark these classics to their favourites. Share this application with ever loving classics with your child now.