Pondering about Lullabyes and Fairy Tales

We always worry about things children hear and see today. Did you ever think about the VIOLENCE in the stories we heard when we were young?

For example, even the song most of us sang as we rocked our babies. Why in the world would anyone put the cradle IN THE TOP of a Tree especially with the baby in it? Sure, when the wind blows the cradle will rock!  How lazy can a mother be? Surely when the bough breaks the cradle will fall, down comes the whole thing. Would you call that child abuse or just plain STUPID? I have to admit I sang it to my babies, glad they weren't old enough to understand.

There was Little Red Riding Hood, even today most mothers wouldn't send a little girl into the woods to Grandmas, especially knowing grandma was sick,and to top that off there were wolves in the area [maybe they would, because there are a lot of Wolves around these days too]. The more I think about it the more things don't seem that different. Anyway, the little girl wasn't too bright if she couldn't tell her grandma from a wolf. If you remember, the wolf had already eaten grandma then ate the girl, was so full he fell asleep, who knows how much time passed when the wood cutter found the wolf asleep, noticed his big belly, cut it open and out came the two humans, in pretty good shape, just glad to be back in daylight and away from the smell.  Grandma even got her needle and thread from her sewing box, put some stones in the incision and sewed it back together. The three of them ran away before the wolf woke up. That's what you call a SOUND SLEEP!

Another thing was The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe, housing must have been worse then it is now. She had so many children she didn't know what to do.  She should have known what NOT to do a few years earlier.  Anyway the poor kids were starving, trying to live on broth and not even any bread.  They should have been in foster homes or put up for adoption. Then to make matters worse, she whipped them all, whether they needed it or not, every night before putting them to bed. Now that's Child Abuse,she couldn't get by with that today.

We also should think about Animal Cruelty example Three Blind Mice, what harm could they do to the farmers wife, the poor little things couldn't see.  The more humane thing would be to take them to a Vet or just cut off their stupid heads and kill 'em out right, don't cause pain and unusual punishment.

That's probably what I'm causing you but these are things to ponder!!