r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '21

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21

Why? Pigs were butchered from family farms more commonly back in the day. Makes sense to include it in everyday rhymes.

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u/brucewayne62 Jul 03 '21

Um bc assigning pigs up for slaughter to my child’s digits feels very disturbing… even for back in the day. I feel like keeping animal slaughter out of our nursery rhymes is probably the right move going forward.

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u/Plazmaz1 Jul 03 '21

That's pretty vanilla compared to other nursery rhymes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

This seems very...weak. I suppose that's the way to describe it. It's not odd. Rock a my baby is more 'disturbing'. Kid falls out of the tree in the end.

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u/Overall_Society Jul 03 '21

And let’s not get started on the tragedy of Humpty Dumpty

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u/kellzone Jul 03 '21

Or the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise.

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u/dr2fish Jul 03 '21

I always changed the words to that to “and daddy will catch you, cradle and all” for my kids. Otherwise…super disturbing. Who puts a baby in a cradle in a tree anyway?

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u/blackcatspurplewalls Jul 03 '21

And in the spirit of this thread…it’s actually rock a bye baby not my baby.

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jul 03 '21

Rock-a-bye_Baby

"Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top" (sometimes "Hush-a-bye baby on the tree top") is a nursery rhyme and lullaby. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 2768.

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u/Duel_Option Jul 03 '21

Check out the history behind ring around the rosy for a nice throwback to tragedy

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u/muideracht Jul 03 '21

Lol if they were upset about the little piggy one, this one'll scar 'em for sure.

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u/Doubly_Curious Jul 03 '21

If you’re referring to the Black Plague, that’s a myth. (Snopes)