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psychomom

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Even older songs my mother sang.....

Marzidoats & Dozeatoats & Little Lambs eat Ivy.
my sisters and i used to try to figure out what in the world it meant.

and mom, because she's kind, s-l-o-w-e-d it way down next time she sang it, so we could hear.

before that we were all, liddlelams-y-divey, what?? hehe
 
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Anyone up to around 20 years of age. I'm glad you've heard of Captain Planet, but I can't abide you finding Gumby to be boring. Haha! It was a treasure-trove of creativity. Maybe you had to watch it from a very early age to enjoy it (I still do - although some episodes are surprisingly creepy).

PsychoMom, why should he be in trouble with his wife? He didn't do anything wrong.
It's a wonder my wife doesn't have vision problems, as much as I make her roll her eyes when we're out somewhere.
 
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my sisters and i used to try to figure out what in the world it meant.

and mom, because she's kind, s-l-o-w-e-d it way down next time she sang it, so we could hear.

before that we were all, liddlelams-y-divey, what?? hehe
Admittedly, I slowed it down here so the younger generation might catch on.
 
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psychomom

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Older than Jack Sprat? Really? That nursery rhyme's been around since the 1400s!
but, Tintin, Mairzy Doats made the pop charts! hahaha

i didn't know the rhymes were that old...my copy was published in 1848.
makes sense, though...wasn't Ring Around a Rosy about the plague?

 
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A little bit of searching reveals they are pagan stories mostly to keep their beliefs known. I'm paraphrasing. Never knew that, nor worried about it much. I'll pay closer attention. As a child, I don't think that crossed my mind. Mostly, all that crossed my mind was, "Why are they so scary"?
 
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psychomom

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man, 'pop' music has come a long way since the '40s...:(
 
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but, Tintin, Mairzy Doats made the pop charts! hahaha

i didn't know the rhymes were that old...my copy was published in 1848.
makes sense, though...wasn't Ring Around a Rosy about the plague?

I've never heard of Mairzy Doats before but I've heard of Jack Sprat. ;)
Yes, Ring Around a Rosy is about the Black Plague and everyone dying. Oh, such lovely rhymes!
 
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A little bit of searching reveals they are pagan stories mostly to keep their beliefs known. I'm paraphrasing. Never knew that, nor worried about it much. I'll pay closer attention. As a child, I don't think that crossed my mind. Mostly, all that crossed my mind was, "Why are they so scary"?
It's truly amazing how many things in which we have found the Boogie Man.

I worked with Sex Offences for 24 years, and it blew my mind how many parents went out of their way to make sure they convinced their children how horribly fouled up their lives would be from now on due to some of those unfortunate situations.
 
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A little bit of searching reveals they are pagan stories mostly to keep their beliefs known. I'm paraphrasing. Never knew that, nor worried about it much. I'll pay closer attention. As a child, I don't think that crossed my mind. Mostly, all that crossed my mind was, "Why are they so scary"?
This post is so left field. What are you talking about? How does this relate to anything said in this thread so far?
 
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This post is so left field. What are you talking about? How does this relate to anything said in this thread so far?
I think it's an example of the way we have learned to look for the negative in so many things. Sometimes we don't even know we are doing it again.
 
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psychomom

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I worked with Sex Offences for 24 years
did you? our daughter works for Crime Victims, and i do try not to worry about her.
she's 29; finishing grad school in neuropsychology, and the job requires she go to the hospital to attend
ladies who've been raped, or to the courthouse to care for children while a judge decides whom they'll live with. :(

sometimes at night, i hear her on the phone (if she's on call) and someone is just yelling at her.

God's love and grace are huge!
still...any advice for momma?



 
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did you? our daughter works for Crime Victims, and i do try not to worry about her.
she's 29; finishing grad school in neuropsychology, and the job requires she go to the hospital to attend
ladies who've been raped, or to the courthouse to care for children while a judge decides whom they'll live with. :(

sometimes at night, i hear her on the phone (if she's on call) and someone is just yelling at her.

God's love and grace are huge!
still...any advice for momma?



Contrasting that, I worked on the other end of the spectrum. I worked with the accused and convicted offenders, themselves. You do find yourself involved with all of it, but our concentration was with the criminals and their families.
 
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Contrasting that, I worked on the other end of the spectrum. I worked with the accused and convicted offenders, themselves. You do find yourself involved with all of it, but our concentration was with the criminals and their families.
riiight!

she tends to run interference between victims of crimes and the police,
whose job it is to 'catch criminals'. but sometimes victims are not ready to be pressed so hard.
it's the kiddos, though...those are the times she comes home crying...
 
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riiight!

she tends to run interference between victims of crimes and the police,
whose job it is to 'catch criminals'. but sometimes victims are not ready to be pressed so hard.
it's the kiddos, though...those are the times she comes home crying...
Yes, it tears me up how often situations are made so much harder on the children than they already are. I think mainly because people tend to look at how it affects THEM and THEIR lives, rather than primarily being concerned with what the children are going through.
 
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Yes, it tears me up how often situations are made so much harder on the children than they already are. I think mainly because people tend to look at how it affects THEM and THEIR lives, rather than primarily being concerned with what the children are going through.
agreed. and so sad! they want to find funding to make our daughter's job permanent,
but she knows better (Godly wisdom, there).

the turnover rate is almost as high as nurses in pediatric oncology.
 
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agreed. and so sad! they want to find funding to make our daughter's job permanent,
but she knows better (Godly wisdom, there).

the turnover rate is almost as high as nurses in pediatric oncology.
Oh, I know. This is a field so deeply intimate and personal, and with so many twists and turns that it is sometimes almost overwhelming. Once, in my earlier years, I had to be restrained by three aides because of my reaction to one of the patients bragging about writing a book detailing his child molesting.

Yet, there are others I have held in my arms as they sobbed over the horrible shame they felt. And, then there are those that honestly lack the mental capacity to understand what is even going on.

I still feel for the whole issue, but I am glad a stroke sidelined me. I needed something to force me out of it.
 

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We were laughing about it at the table later, and it brought to mind several others. One was Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater. Had a wife, but couldn't keep her. So, he................................

Can anyone here finish it?
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.

Kind of misogynist, wouldn't you say?

I read nursery rhymes to all my kids, because rhyming is about speech patterns. I have bought my grandchildren nursery rhyme books, which my kids are reading to them. But I do noticed they are "tidied" up a bit, so as to not have so many gruesome things.

Georgy porgey, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry,
When the boys came out to play,
Geogry porgey ran away.

Apparently this was about George III of England molesting women. Some of the noblemen stood up to him, and he stopped. (And for all your Americans, George III is famous for the Boston Tea Party and taxation without representation!)
 

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Guys............the song goes...........Mares eat oats...........Does eat oats.......( as in deer....)and little lambs eat ivy....a kid will eat ivy too........wouldn't you...............Lol
 
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(And for all your Americans, George III is famous for the Boston Tea Party and taxation without representation!)
i heard a pastor preaching on the first imputation, and how so many Christians think it's unfair to receive a sin nature when they hadn't 'done anything wrong'. :rolleyes:

he amended the famous American phrase to:
no damnation without representation! haha

(but of course, we know we were perfectly represented in Eden.)