From time immemorial children have been reciting nursery rhymes with their lispy accent little realizing how practically each and every rhyme has an element of cruelty in it and it is surprising that the powers that be have not contemplated on banning at least  some of them.

Jack and Jill is one of the most famous and the favourite of many but why should Jack fall and break his crown and Jill comes tumbling down? What if they had said instead – Jack and Jill went up the Hill to fetch a pale of water. Jack sat down and sipped a bit and offered Jilll thereafter – there could have been countless lines giving a happy and pleasant feeling to this rhyme. 

Why should the bird snip off  the  maid’s nose who was hanging clothes in the garden in the rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Six Pens’?  A line like – there came a black bird and gave a peck on her nose. Truly whoever composed this poem must have been a sadist of sorts.

Now about the rhyme Humptey Dumptey why should the Humpty Dumpty have a great fall – a line such as Humptey Dumpety sat on a wall, Humpty Dumptey  looked nice and tall or some such harmless rhyme. Some research needs to be done about those who wrote these type of rhymes.

Even an innocent rhyme such as Hush a bye baby the lines – “   When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all. –could not be worse!!!

It is indeed disturbing as to what could have been in the minds of these lyricists as practically each and every rhyme has an overtone of cruelty in them. It is  hoped that all these rhymes would be banned specially now as today’s children do understand what they are reciting and are urged to memorise.