Nursery Rhymes - Where Have All The Traditional Ones Gone?

If you're reading this article you too, probably, have a toddler or two running around creating havoc. If, like me, you're wondering where all the traditional nursery rhymes have gone to, I'm here to remedy the situation!

Do you remember the traditional children's songs from your kindergarten years such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Incy Wincy/Itsy Witsy Spider, ABC, etc? I assume that you remember them sung in a certain way, with different emphasis and stresses on certain keywords. You cannot forget the melodies either - impossible! In fact a lot of melodies are reused on multiple nursery rhymes such as Twinkle Twinkle has the same melody as the A, B, C Song and Baa Baa Black Sheep.

So you can imagine my horror when recently, when I was trying to entertain my youngest daughter (15 months old) with some videos on YouTube and almost none of these aforementioned kids' songs were as I recalled! Was my poor memory to blame here?

I wanted to show my baby all the nursery rhymes that I had grown up with, as did my own mother/father and theirs too. I was stunned (or should that read "shocked"?) to see how disastrously bad the vast majority of the online videos were. I mean they were really awful! At best, some were genuinely laugh out loud, but for all the wrong reasons(!) and at worst some were downright scary and perhaps not even suitable for young children. Perhaps the ratio of good:poor quality was around 1:40! Also I noticed that most of the YouTube nursery rhyme videos had incredibly long intros - 20, 30 or even more seconds of pre-ambling material, promotions and other irrelevant material before actually commencing the main theme. I probably don't need to tell you dear parent, that even just 20 seconds can seems like an incredibly long time when you have a wriggling and slightly bored baby on your lap!

Not only are the websites and animations mainly of an incredibly poor quality the actual songs and lyrics themselves were very often incorrect, as the singer/company's first language was often not actually English. Where had all the real nursery rhymes gone I wondered? There was very little online resources that mirrored my childhood memories. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" had now become "Dwingle Dwingle" and the little boy from Baa Baa Black Sheep now lived in the lane (whatever that means!)

It's important that we don't lose our traditional songs to the unrelenting technological changes that allow anyone to upload any material they like to the internet. It's important that high standards are adhered to and that we pass our playground songs on accurately. I urge you to check out some of the nursery rhyme videos for yourself to see how awful they have become. You will laugh at some and cringe at others but after the initial laughter has died down you too will feel the sadness of your childhood memories becoming lost.

The number of views a video has received or where it appears in the search results unfortunately doesn't give any indication of quality. So, how to locate the good stuff and ignore the bad? My recommendations are as follows:
Go to YouTube (not Google) to searchUse the nursery rhyme's full name - i.e. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is better than "Twinkle Twinkle" and use speech marks around title.Adding the word "British" or "English" can really helpClick search options and under "Features" (far right) click High definition.

Inspired by the lack of quality nursery rhyme videos available and without any previous experience, I assembled a team of people: myself, husband and 2 daughters(!), to come up with a solution.

It was great fun (also expensive!) and at times it was very stressful project managing a remote team of animators, but we are hugely proud of the final result. Our hope and dream is to create more of these traditional nursery rhyme animations and upload them all to YouTube so that they become a free resource for one and all.

 

Baby names - traditional on

Decision on the name our baby is one of the most difficult and fun part of the birth of a child. Apart from the preparations, which should have to go through you to ensure that your baby gets everything it needs, you also spend some time thinking about what you are, your little a call. This is not really necessary, but this is the best thing you can do so that you can come with a good name for your baby. It would be not very impractical to think the baby, which he already comes out name at the moment. As soon as you already know the baby gender, you can think about his name already begin.

Of course, you can go the traditional names or common names. These are the names that almost everyone familiar and are widely used all over the world. Because these names are very common and have been used so many years ago, people are rarely wrong to express or wrong they write what is really good. If your baby is a boy, you can call, examine him as Robert, John, Patrick, mark, William or Richard. But if your child is a girl, Mary, Catherine, Carol, Victoria, Diana and Jane are only some of the traditional names that you can consider. All these names are really good, but of course, you can not expect that your baby will be only that will have that name. So, if you are looking for in your other options, and you want a unique name for your baby, you can be more creative and modern.

Although it nothing is wrong with the traditional and common name, it is better if you are looking into something else. You can come with your own name as a combination of your name and your husband's name. You can take the first syllable in your name and the first syllable of your husband called. It will certainly be a unique name for your baby. You can also combine some other people name as your mother, grandmother, grandfather or even celebrities - it is all up to you. You need only your imagination and creativity, which work so that you can create something great. Any name would actually do, as long as it is not funny sounds, because other people can laugh your baby ' name.

Apart from the traditional and creative names to name your baby even after someone in your family. Actually, the decision is all up to you. You can yourself baby names, with each name you want or to someone you want as long as it is a decent name. Make sure that the name is something special, because it only once will you and your baby will have it for the rest of his life. And, of course, even though you already know the gender of your baby, it is also best if you are preparing also a name for the opposite sex only for the case that the baby is a boy and your expected a girl.

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