Don't go to the WOODS TODAY!

No I dont think they will enjoy the way we did . I don tthink it is right to change the word for sometimes it changes the whole meaning!

I will have to go look at that.
If kids today hear the same kind of rhymes as we did I think they would like them.
I read my daughter all the old nursery rhymes. That one is new to me though.
My daughter always loves me to do "this little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef and this little piggy had none. And this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home."
I used to grab her toes as I did it.
Last summer I was at a friend's house and she has a little boy and I did it to him and he liked it. The mom said she had never done that before.

Sometimes I think some people have gone overboard with political correctness. I used to think that there were words which were meant for both genders like 'mankind'. But no, in many parts of the world there are real attempts to push away these words and replace them with 'politically correct' words or terms. Even my country does not escape this wave. I am beginning to hear words like chairperson and humankind.

If we really want to be politically correct why not be fair? Therefore we should use words like Person Earth, Person Ship, and Person Land.

In my opinion we are wasting our time nit picking, time which could better be used like how to overcome the current economic crisis and crop failures.

all the best,
rosdimy

Hi, friend.
Foremost, I have to say that I personally don't know about this poem. In fact, this is the very first time I ever heard and read of this poem. I guess this is one of the poems which is quite native to your place, or its author is from your area; 'homegrown' as they say.
But I'm an individual who is fond of prose and poetry. If I can and if my time or schedule permits me, I read of poems & other compositions of various authors. My schoolfriends used to tell me that I'm a voracious reader. With my fondness on these creations, this also encouraged me to try my hand with poems first; and eventually, I also wrote some short novels which are still unpublished locally up to present.
Frankly, the poem you mentioned here doesn't give a striking effect to me. What was it supposed to mean, other than the ordinary? No offense meant to you and to anyone who loved this poem; but this is my personal opinion. I guess it's because of timing effect and other factors which may have been significant to you in previous times rather than now.
Anyway, I tried to visualize the poem and a simple yet harmonious occasion is what I see being portrayed in there, while I was reading the poem. Thanks for sharing the poem to me and to others who will be reading it after me. Regards, friend.

Hoping the surprise isn't a "Deliverance" style surprise of the "squeal like a stuck pig" variety. Perhaps the bears had to go in disguise because it was bear-hunting season. I must be missing something because I can't find the political correctness in the teddy bear rhyme. Can't wait to post my response so I can see what others came up with in the rhyme.

I never thought of it that way!

Did you hear the Grimm's Fairy Tales as a child? I loved them but reading them as an adult I'm surprised I wasn't scared to death! I still love them but look at them a lot differently now that I'm grown up. Same way with the Teddy Bear song, I never heard that till my boys were little and never thought anything of it till now!

I remeber reading this poem to my girls an we even dressed up to pretend we were at the teddy bear picnic an would smile even after i was done playing to hear them in the background enjoying going to a teddy bear picnic

Hi hiccup,


I have always wanted to know those lyrics, thank you so much, I think it is just a warning in the old days that not to for in the woods and play because there are many dangers there like snakes and all sorts of dangers there, but today its the two legged animals that you have to watch out for, so that is the warning for children.


Tamara

Hello my friend hiccup Ji,
I suppose and accept as change of place (era), time. Now-a-days. Lie would look as
truth and vice versa. What we had experiences during our child-hood, will be totally
different these days. This is, what is generation gap. We havew to accept it. For us,
Holi river Ganges has changed the root. Seasons are changing, Nature is changing. But,
real poetyic ideas would remain same. May god bless you and have a great time.

We found a fabulous book of children's fairy stories, all reworked to make them politically correct. It was hysterical, but I guess the kids wouldn't have found them half as exciting. I wish I could remember where I found it.