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?

Think that applies to both 'mummies' and 'daddies'

and a reference to a form of payment that hasn't been an option in London at least for several years? ours take cash. There's more to the world than London buses. Agree with you about chav though.

Interesting that a lot of the modernising seems to turn into slagging men off though. Mu. My is talking UN politics but Daddy is playing on his phone.

Based in Mumsnet Mummy is probably performance parenting rather than sussing or chatting tbf

@minniebow

Rock a bye baby.

I love it and sang it to my own daughter.

She has no phobia of trees. Or cradles.

Oh Christ almighty unclench. Was a joke

Oh and the term chav is still used round here, to describe young scallys who wear tracksuits and are generally pests and yes they openly scratch their nuts. Also out in the sticks we still pay for the bus with money. Shocking!

This mumn the bus says where's my pass? Where's my purse? Where's a seat!

The melts on the bus say 'Don't do that' all day long!

The daddies were never on the bus in our version...they were all at work!

Not this again! [bored].

I suppose that

The Grand Old Duke of York
He had ten thousand men

Would also incur lemon-sucking lips , on some grounds or other.

What's wrong with chattering on a bus, eh?!

Usually I’m easy going about this stuff but I agree with you OP.

Oh fuck off. Honestly.

I suspect women were unlikely to have served on the front line in the Grand Old Duke of York’s day, so I’m ok with it

Or maybe it’s thatbtheums are good at connecting with people and the dads don’t like the kids shouting?

But it’s certain that your kids will have many many many other influences, so one song isn’t so bad.

I'm faintly surprised that those lyrics are still used. My mother used to refuse to sing the chattering mummies version at the nursery she ran, and that was thirty years ago. I wouldn't exactly call my mother a feminist, either (on most issues, she's pretty much a misogynist).

Get a life

Anyone who thinks this stuff is irrelevant should watch the secret life of four and five year olds. It’s all relevant.

Whilst we're at it, can we get the lyrics of "A sailor went to Sea" changed pls??

NOT ALL SAILORS ARE MEN!!!

In our version the mummies chatter and the daddies snore.

I like to chat on the bus. More serious topics of conversation kept for when there's not 30 other folk listening in.
My husband will fall asleep 15 seconds into the journey.

Suits us!

I totally agree, we should all walk around not breathing air, not saying anything to anyone or being alive.

What!!!!!! A ridiculous post get a grip women.

I almost started this thread myself after going to a toddler group the other day. I agree with you OP.

I just don't sing those verses. I sit there in silence. I sing the rest.

@ElectricMonkey you do realise the rest of the UK has buses don't you? Many of which take cash...

AGHHHH Finally common sense prevails 😂