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?

Jack's with Jill,she forgot the pill, but he still climbed inside her.
He's left her alone, now her bellies full grown, but dad number 2s not far behind her!

runs and hides behind couch

What's wrong with people on this thread? Someone even used the word snowflake FFS. You're not making a drama of it OP, the song is sexist. Posters getting upset about rainbow sheep are the "snowflakes" if anyone is, why else get all professionally offended about updating the songs?

I get fed up of political correctness - but this time you are right. This sort of casual sexism sinks in slowly and should be resisted. You may be seen by some idiots as"that parent" but thank god for people like you.

Oh my god "rainbow sheep " and changing wheels on the bus ....what is the world coming to.
I hope my DS is raised as a more well rounded individual that singing a nursery rhyme won't give him the basis for his outlook on life.

@abbsisspartacus I read that as if you had dropped your kids off at school and then talked so long there was no time to go home, now that would be an epic chat session!

@Dreamscomingtrue I know, humpty is the biggest snowflake ever, getting all the king's men and horses crowding round him making a fuss each time, they need to ignore him as you do a toddler.

@consuela you keep making me snort! Bloody Tories are anti-disabled mice, we need to take to the streets

It's the driver on the bus who says stop that noise. Daddy's go read read read!

We had this exact same thread a few years ago! Bertrand will be along soon.

The version I'm used to is the Grannies chattering, the Mummies saying shhh and no Daddies mentioned.

I get what you mean as it sets up a precedent for future sexist beliefs but honestly, it's really just a silly song sung at nursery just to get various goes around the town. No malicious intent in it. I expect as it's usually Mummies talking to their friends rather than just never shutting up.

The Daddies on our bus go fast asleep, fast asleep, fast asleep.

I’m just here for the alternative versions

@Dreamscomingtrue Humpty Dumpty sat on a chair... eating ripe bananas! Where do you think he put the skin, down his new pjamamas! I would kill him for that!

Could be worse 30 years ago I sang at playgroup, "the fat lady on the bus goes wobble wobble wobble."

Wind your neck in op. It's a a silly song. By the time your DC is old enough to understand they'll think it's silly too.

Mummies on the bus drink wine discreetly
Wine discreetly, wine discreetly
Mummies in the bus......

The world has gone completely bonkers.

In our old version

Babies went waaa waaa waaa
Children go chatter chatter chatter
Mummies went shh shh shhh
Daddies went nod nod nod
Conductor (does the song have them any more???) says Any More Fares
Driver says Move Down Please

It is like déjà vu here but for what it's worth I agree OP, just casual sexism that filters in. I always correct to people on the bus but we don't do the 'Dad verse' so it works in context.

I'm pretty sure baa baa black/ rainbow sheep was an urban myth perpetrated by the DM, one council introduced it but it was very quickly scrapped, amongst much ridicule

The teens on the bus go text text text
The driver on the bus says I'm on diversion
etc.
Have some fun with it.

I occasionally have to do rhyme time at the library where I work and tbh I always forget who does what on the bloody bus. I get in such a muddle the babies probably end up going swish, swish, swish and the wipers go round and round.

The version I sing sometimes involves...

Mummy on the busy is very cool, very cool, very cool...

Daddy on the bus smells of poo, smells of poo....

DS is 19mo though and not talking so I can get away with it right now.

@downwith always happy to provide entertainment 😁

As a single mum I love our nursery version!! Mummies go chatter and daddies aren't even mentioned!!!

Some alternative verses..
The wheelchair user on the bus goes " excuse me would you kindly move that pram"
The piss head on the bus goes wee wee wee
The smoker on the bus goes koff koff koff

My niece has been taught mummies chatter and daddies read! 🤷 I told her it's daddies moan... I don't mind one negative stereotype add long as it's balanced with another 😂

The buggy on the bus is in the wheelchair space, in the wheelchair space, Inn the wheelchair space. The buggy on the bus was in the wheelchair space it now the Daddy's folded it!

I have far more issue with the pig eating roast beef. Bloody sick little pig.
Ours gets ice cream or beef crisps.