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.

If this post is a joke to wind is up I'm about to make an idiot of myself but I haven't slept all night! I can see her point. In fairness I've thought myself that some of the nursery rhymes and fairy tales are a bit dark. Honestly!!! The picture of Snow White was it or sleeping beauty dead in that glass coffin in my book when I was a kid really creeped me out. I've never made an issue of it and wouldn't project my "weirdness" onto my children but I have thought it quite a few times! When they sing ring a ring of roses I think this is about lots of dead people. I don't know, I can see her point though!

This is a zombie thread and the OP confirmed she was joking.

You should hear some of the French nursery rhymes - sailors eating each other, someone going to see their lover being hanged, a girl drowning kittens... to name a few. Most traditional children’s songs and stories are quite dark in their origins!

I remembered thread and posters inability to RTFT

Humpty Dumpty was the nickname given to the cannon which was on the hill in Colchester. ( It fell off.)

Not RTFT, but FFS!
If you're going to start getting offended at nursery rhymes, where do you even start?!
They're all dark and gloomy with dodgy backgrounds/morals if you listen to them properly!
Grip. Get one.

Oh, FFS, bloody zombie.
Hope you found your grip.

Clearly you couldnt even be arsed to read the first few pages Glitter

Well yes, if you read my post, you'd see I said not RTFT.
That'll learn me in future