Eating Insects

I have come to the definitive conclusion that children's nursery rhymes and songs are highly disturbing.

It sounds all nice and cheery but when you analyse the lyrics, they can be quite worrying. Although I've talked about it before, nothing I've described is as disturbing as this song that I heard while one of my son's CDs was playing in our living room.

Check this out....

There Was An Old Woman

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a bird,
How absurd! to swallow a bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a cat,
Imagine that! to swallow a cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a dog,
What a hog! to swallow a dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a goat,
Just opened her throat! to swallow a goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,
She's dead! — of course!

I asked Mrs Prem about buying such a disturbing CD for our son. As it turns out, it is a children's classic! Here's a video!

Suddenly, Rihanna's "Umbrella" doesn't sound so bad for a 1 year old.

Umbrella (Chorus) - Rihanna

When the sun shines
We’ll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be your friend
Took an oath
I'm ma stick it out 'till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we still have each other
You can stand under my Umbrella
You can stand under my Umbrella

That's more like it. A song about friendship, sharing and protecting oneself from the rain.

*sigh*

Mr Cranky Pants

My little boy is 6 weeks old! Time really flies when you're sleep deprived. I can't quite tell between day and night anymore and everything seems to be done on "auto-pilot" mode, if you know what I mean.

Premster Jr is growing very quickly. And with his physical development, his mind is also starting to "connect the dots". He sees things and gets facinated. This was three weeks ago. Today, when he sees something of interest to him, he tries to reach for it. And when he can't, he starts to throw a fit. And when he throws a fit, he makes sure the entire neighbourhood knows that he's pissed. So, he now has a new nickname thanks to his Daddy - Mr Cranky Pants.

Sadly, he's not the only "Cranky Pants" in the family. I think it has become my trait as well. Sleep deprivation will do that to you. I can go without eating for 2 days, without water for 24 hours but if I am not allowed to sleep, I'll go berserk. So, I seem to snap at every little thing these days.

Fortunately for Mr Cranky Pants Junior and Senior, we don't have a Mrs Cranky Pants. The Mrs has a smile on her every day and puts up with Junior's tantrums - he pulls his own hair and then screams as a result of the pain! - as well as Senior's constant gloom. I really can't imagine how she does it. Two babies in one household has to be tough on her. She's a real trooper.

And during the breaks she gets when Cranky Pants and Cranky Pants are both alseep, she tries to scour the Internet for nursery rhymes to entertain our little boy when he wakes up. And having found quite a few, she pointed out this important fact to me. Have you noticed how terrible / depressing children's nursery rhymes are?

London Bridge Is Falling Down - Talks about the collapse of a bridge.
Ding Dong Bell - Rhyme about someone drowning a cat.
Humpty Dumpty - About Humpty Dumpty falling off a wall and broken beyond repair.
Rock A Bye Baby - A lullaby about a baby in his cradle which falls off a tree!
Little Miss Muffet - Rhyme about Miss Muffet who is arachnophobic.
Jack And Jill - Rhyme about two kids who went up a hill to get water and the boy fell and broke his head.
Three Blind Mice - Tale about a farmer's wife cutting of the... er... tails of three already suffering blind mice.
Old Woman In A Shoe - The beginning of child abuse and birth control?

*sigh*