Recently my wife and I decided we needed to get our kids a book full of nursery rhymes like we had as kids. I couldn’t actually remember any of the words to them, just that we used to sing them. Upon reading them to Judah and Elli yesterday I realized how hilariously awful these things are. I was laughing so hard at some of the lyrics!

I began to wonder, though, that with all of the attention being put on video games like Grand Theft Auto as potentially ruining the morality of youth perhaps we are ignoring a dark horse culprit that infiltrates and perverts children’s minds before they can even formulate their own worldviews! After all, the back of the book reads, “Each classic nursery rhyme in this beautifully illustrated book is featured on the sing-along CD, shich will encourage children to learn the words and interact with the music”. Sounds like brainwashing an army of malfeasant toddlers to me! Where’s Steven Colbert when you need him?!

Okay, in case you haven’t figure out by now, I’m just joking. But, these things are seriously messed up. However, for funs sake, the following posts will be a series of Nursery Rhyme exegesis…