To believe “wind the bobbin up” is inappropriate and to ask my child’s Nursery not to sing it.

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Wind the bobbin up originated in the cotton mill towns of the north of England in Victorian times. As anyone who knows a bit about a bit history can tell you, the cotton mills were horrendous places which horrifically exploited women and children, forcing them to do dangerous work in appalling conditions for little pay.

How can it be right to trivialise these horrors by getting children to sing a light-hearted ditty about it... It’s offensive to the memory of all those who suffered these horrendous conditions and experienced serious injury or even death as a result of hideously exploitative working practices.

How to spot the posters who are too important to read the whole thread or even the OP's updates before posting their earth shattering opinions.

Oh yes.

The cow in the medow goes moo. The cow in the meadow goes moo. Then the farmer hits him on the head and grinds him up and thats how we get hamburgers.

This is a joke right ?

I dare you to google the English translation of alouette

Unless you children are being sent under the looms then yabu.Maybe explain in an age appropriate way what children went through in years gone by.

Alouette is a lark isn't it and the song is about plucking it's feathers from various areas of its body?

Jack and Jill!!! Teaching children vinegar fixes booboos!!!! The scandal!!!

Might add that I disgraced myself when once taking Gdd to a singalong session. Thought I knew from way back the words to Miss Polly Had A Dolly, so sang out lustily with 'The doctor came with HIS bag and his hat...’

‘He wrote on a paper for a pill, pill pill,
I’ll be back in the morning with my bill, bill, bill.’

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER while you should of course be ashamed of yourself for misgendering the poor doctor, I am personally more concerned that the song is advocating for the privatisation of the NHS. I won’t have any child of mine singing such Tory propaganda.

Strange and it is still happening.

Rapunzel is the victim of false imprisonment and grooming.

3 blind mice is about bloody Mary’s burning of Protestant bishops. As someone who makes it to church around three times a year I felt bad it very offensive.

Thread made the Mirror. Lol.

Oh Christ, did they think it was serious?

Probably, but because nobody knows our real names, do you really care?

I care because this is how urban myths get started! ‘Mums try to ban Nursery rhymes because its offensive to wombats!’ ‘Save our nursery rhymes’ ‘Muslims call for ban of this little piggy...’

I’d never heard Wind the Bobbin Up until my DC started nursery, it wasn’t sung when I was young and neither my mum nor granny know it.
If it came from the northern mills how did it spread suddenly in recent years?

Fekko I don't even know most urban myths, I'm sure a high percentage of the population don't either.

OP, find something worthwhile to fuss about.
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We worked our way through a book of sea-related songs at our genteel girls’ junior school, Lots of a’roving with ladies who were mistress of their trade. Think we may have had a cheerily subversive music teacher

“I care because this is how urban myths get started! ‘Mums try to ban Nursery rhymes because its offensive to wombats!’ ‘Save our nursery rhymes’ ‘Muslims call for ban of this little piggy...’”

Yep. This.

‘Foul mouthed mums drink gin!’

Not read the thread or the OP's updates then @wakemeupbefore?

Thread made the Mirror. Lol.

Fame at last!

“I care because this is how urban myths get started! ‘Mums try to ban Nursery rhymes because its offensive to wombats!’ ‘Save our nursery rhymes’ ‘Muslims call for ban of this little piggy...’”

I sort of agree but I don’t mind admitting that In fact it hasn’t got nasty and doesn’t need me to police it.
So all good.

Myths, urban myths included, serve a purpose.

If this “wind the bobbin” up nonsense that I started the thread with did ever reach that status (and it almostly certainly won’t), it will be because people want an easy tool to use against the ‘professionally offended’ zealots who want to place unreasonable restrictions on what is and isn’t acceptable to say, much like those on the ‘concentration camp’ thread.