Pop Songs Replace Nursery Rhymes For Bedtime Crooning
Posted July 16, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of…what was it again?
Children today may not know the end of that rhyme, as a new study shows. According to the new numbers, 40 per cent of parents cannot recite a single nursery rhyme all the way through.
Educators say nursery rhymes are among the first educational tools a child uses to learn basic language, counting and recognition skills. However, about 44 per cent of parents sing pop songs to their kids instead of rhymes.
“I sing mostly pop songs, no nursery rhymes,” says David, a father. “Times change it’s what they like.”
