To want to complain about Wheels on the Bus?

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I really don't want to be that parent but...

My DS who is 2 and a half is singing the wheels on the bus with the lyrics 'the mummies on the bus go chatter chatter chatter... etc' and then after that 'the daddies on the bus go stop that noise... etc'

He's picked it up from nursery, who I didn't think would teach these lyrics, they're normally really good and on the ball with things. I hate the stereotype the lyrics are projecting that mummies are silly and daddies are impatient.

I know there's another version with the mummies saying I love you, WIBU to ask nursery to change what they teach?

Ffs

What... is this for real?

Christ on a bike...
Tbf the mummies on my morning bus to work never shut the fuck up so perhaps there is some truth in it

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I agree with you OP, but this has been done on here before and I predict you will get your arse handed to you for being 'professionally offended'

Ridiculous. Pointless thread award goes to....

Oh, lots of x posts, but rather depressingly proving that little has changed since this subject last had an airing

Better than the version we had - the mummies go shh, and the daddies read their paper 🙄 I do find it really annoying to be honest. All of this small stuff informs their understanding of the world.

Didn't we have this a while back? Or was that something else

Oh no, it was Edmund elephant responsible for the clever clogs-gate

You may be onto something here! It may need modernising.
" the seats on the bus have unknown stains , unknown stains , unknown stains" ......

"The chav on the bus just scratches his nuts,scratches his nuts"..

The driver on the bus says I've got no change,got no change

Perfect
Problem solved

I'm a man who reads posts on here and I don't post often but YANBU. What stupid lyrics, It is sexist stereotyping and wrong.

Our playgroup had “the daddies go tickle tickle tickle” and “the mummies go shh shh shh” but to the baby that’s crying so it made a bit more sense..

I know it's small in the grand scheme of things, but like @sinkgirl says, it does inform their understanding of the world.

I've never seen a thread about this before, and I've been a lurker for years, but the thanks for the advice @incognito8522, I'll don my hardhat

OP you really are that parent.....

FFS! How can anyone get so worked up about a kid’s song? I listened to it constantly as a child on tape - it hasn’t reinforced gender stereotypes at all. How ludicrous. Aren’t there more pressing issues in the world, seriously?

@consuela that's brilliant, also 'the puddle on the floor could be piss, could be piss, could be piss...'

I’m astonished people think you’re being daft. Sexism starts in the cradle. We are steeped in it our whole fucking lives.

So if tiny kids are being told to sing songs about silly chattering inconsequential women being told off by authoritarian then yes, yes it’s stupid and should be changed.

Yes, OP is That Parent.

Somebody needs to be That Parent.

Change it. I can’t remember what we sang when I used to go to baby/toddler groups, but I have a feeling I pioneered ‘The mummies on the bus say “Off to work!”’ because I wasn’t the only one who was dy8ng for the end of maternity leave.

*authoritarian men

OP if he sees you silent on the bus, maybe he'll remember you were the exception.

The version I've always known doesn't include daddies. Babies go "waah", mummies go "shh" and the driver goes "stop that noise". But either way you are being ridiculous, does it really matter?

I’m That Parent too. The parent who has a problem with blatant sexism being peddled to kids.

Oh ffs, It's just a nursery rhymes!

I remember singing nursery rhymes with my DN3 who sang 'baa baa rainbow sheep'!

I mean, what the actual fuck is that all about??

Political correctness gone bonkers!

I couldn’t make myself go along with it. I changed it to “mummies on the bus discuss UN sanctions, UN sanctions, UN sanctions” and “daddies on the bus all played sudoku, played sudoku, played sudoku” 🤷‍♀️