I honestly don't think kids are as stupid as the Family Centre thinks they are.

Bryan, you may be right, but their parents are for allowing it.

Two thoughts:
1) Is my calendar wrong, and today is April 1?
2) Parents teach their kids nursery rhymes still, don't they? One would hope Mom & Dad have more influence over a child than the employees at (state-run?) "nursery schools"...

What's wrong with a black sheep being asked if it has any wool? It's not being compared invidiously to a white sheep. These people need more to do with their spare time. I suggest a hobby, like model trains.

I'm more concerned with the teacher's complete lack of poetic sensibility. Couldn't she have come up with a one syllable substitution? She must be a white sheep � no sense of rhythm.

Once again a consortium consisting of the hypersensitive, those that were picked last for kickball, and folks with poles planted firmly up their kiesters - have made a valuable contribution to society by taking pre-emptive action to shield our children from any potential joy or meaningless fun. One wonders how they ever ran an empire, much less civilized half the world.

b:

Parents actually don't seem to teach their kids the rhymes anymore.

Number 1 daughter is in pre-school now -- most of the kids in her class are from the fairly well-to-do suburb of Park Ridge, so presumably from educated homes -- and her teacher commented to my wife that she was amazed that my daughter knew all the nursery rhymes already.

We have Richard Scarry to thank for it in our home.

Now if only this Scarry classic would come back into print (and there's no question that pc nonsense is responsible for the fact that such as classic is out of print.

Blast, I just tried to post a comment on nursery rhymes, complete with hyper-links to Amazon regarding two Richard Scarry classics, and got a comment that my post was being held by the moderator or somesuch.

Is OJ upset about my recent disparaging comments in re the next Wrong Sawx superstar Mr. Pamplemousse?

The anti-spam filters eat the ones with links sometimes. I don't even get to see them.

Won't this offend Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition?

Get a free TypeKey account; the link is above the comment box.

I rarely have problems posting links when signed in to my TypeKey account.

Or, limit links to one per comment, that will help.

Do they censor the Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe where she whipped them all soundly and put them to bed? I wonder what THAT would look like these days.

Don't remember the details, but one of my granddaughter's books had the cigarette in the hand of the author pictured on the back cover, brushed out. Kids wouldn't even notice, so it must be the sensibilities of the adults that needed assuaging.

Mr. Judd;

You need to crank up the link counts for moderate and junk in your SpamLookup filters. The other anti-junk tech I gave the Other Brother should keep things under control with out having to restrict links in comments so heavily (that's one of the main reason I built that tech).