What’s the deal with scary and/or kid inappropriate stories, songs and nursery rhymes? To use a common example, Hansel and Gretel. This fairy tale is presented as a children’s bedtime story and it ...

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OXFORD — Generations grew up with the “sticks and stones” rhyme. You know, the one that ends, “but words can never hurt me.” Increasingly, it’s fallen out of fashion. Learned people, scholars at ...

It’s funny thinking how some nursery rhymes become children’s songs. And this one, about three mice who cannot see who get their tails chopped off with a carving knife, is at the top of the list.

It’s funny. When you dig into the lyrics of a particular song, you might be stunned by what they say. For example, one of the sweetest-sounding songs we hear as a child is the nursery rhyme, ...