JFF - I am curious to see how you would feel about the song my son recently learned at pre-school. He is 3.5 years old.
"The pig in the field goes oink.
The pig in the field goes oink.
Then the farmer comes and hits him on the head, and thats how we get hot dogs".
I personally am not offended by this, I thought it was kind of funny, but some friends and family members were horrified when they heard the song and could not believe he learned it from his teacher at pre-school. BTW - Its a fairly high end preschool, and I absolutely love love love his preschool teacher, she is totally fabulous and I have no worries at all that there is anything wierd going on with her... I think it is probably just not the greatest of choices, as someone in the school is likely to be offended judging by the responses I have heard from friends and family. My son just thinks is a silly song, he has no concept of how most food is made and I dont plan on discussing it anytime soon.
So, would you be offended, or do you think its harmless fun?
LOL, good answers from everyone. Glad to know that most are not offended!! Agreed that some folks take things WAY too seriously. I think someone here said they would have been shocked... and I think that is probably the reaction I have been seeing and I called it offended but maybe it is more shocked.
He also learned this one at school:
"The chicken in the field goes cluck
The chicken in the field goes cluck
Then the farmer comes and chops off his head and thats how we get chicken wings"
I like that one even more because he does little chicken arm movements when he sings it :0)
That is how we get hot dogs... Its strange people dont want their kids to know where their food comes from, lol. Anyone that gets mad tell them to come on over and my daughter can sing them the diarea song.
It sounds like a song Phoebe from "Friends" would sing. There was an episode where she sings similar songs, and maybe the teacher remembered it.
I wouldn't sing it with my preschool group, but I may have a different teaching style, and I wouldn't get offended if my son brought it home. (Really, isn't getting "offended" such a lot of work for something so slight? ;)
Harmless fun! At that age they do not really understand it anyway. Hopefully though it will set the stage for them learning that food does not actually appear magically packaged on store shelves.
And really that is where most hot dogs come from :)
My favorite nursery rhyme is "Goosey Goosey Gander, where shall I wander, upstairs & downstairs & in the ladies' chamber. There I met an old man, who wouldn't say his prayers. I took him by the left leg, and threw him down the stairs."
There is so much effed up with that rhyme, but it's fun. Read through a mother goose book, so much of it is inappropriate!
Personally I love cutting tails off blind mice, but thats just me.
Well, if a 3.5 yr old lived on a farm, they'd probably know this very well already. I find it to be a humorous way to introduce a teachable moment. Most of our kids are so disconnected from our food supply, if someone didn't teach them otherwise, they could probably live their whole lives thinking that hamburgers come from the ground, or from a factory.
Rock a Bye baby ends with a baby falling out of a tree.
Harmless fun
Isn't that the song that Pheobe sung to the kids at the library on Friends? lol
I think it's pretty funny! And it's true after all. At least the bloody details were left out.
Nursery rhymes and songs are notoriously violent. Have you ever really paid attention to the words of Rock a Bye Baby? Yikes. And I believe Ring around the Rosie was written during the time of the Black Plague (ashes, ashes, we all fall down) yes, fall down DEAD!
I think it's funny. Ever read the lyrics to Little Bunny Foo Foo?
Wow, I can't believe anyone would be offended. Pigs are food for crying out loud. Vegans shouldn't even be offended. People eat meat. People have eaten meat since... forever. I don't even see where this is boarderline offensive.
hahaha. It falls under funny and oh so wrong at the same time.
not that bad, i think its harmless. my fav is the song my daughter sang when she came home from preschool "i got the joy, joy in my heart, joy, joy in my heart, if the devil doesn't like it he can sit on a tack, ouch, sit on a tack, ouch". :)
i dont find it offensive. Ring around the rosies was about the black plague, its raining its pouring the man doesnt wake up because he died in his sleep due to the concussion from bumping his head. there was one my son was singing the alphabet that included a red gummy bear chasing him with a knife although this was taught by a classmate and not a teacher.
Notice that some states are passing laws requiring more emphasis on agriculture and the role it plays in the food chain and society and economics...etc.?
This is that.
The next generation is going to be very familiar with where a hamburger comes from.
I love those types of songs..
Not offended by them.. Especially sung super loud to entertain adults..
How about the 3 men in a tub, Hello>>> ????
Here is a fun article about some of these strange children's Nursery Rhymes/songs.
http://voices.yahoo.com/strange-lines-childrens-songs-nur...
Not ours!!! Ours the farmer swings the turkey around by the neck!
:D
I think it's great.
For the record, I can't think of one "appropriate" preschool song.
Little Bunny Foo foo is what this song reminds me of. do you know that one? --L BFooFoo hopping throught the forest, scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head.
I vote for harmless, However, i never liked to hear my kids sing
--One little two little three little indians, there are verses that go with it,
Jumped int the boat and the boat tiped over, repeat, swam to the shore and built a teepee, oowah oowah shoot that arrow etc.
That one seems racially insensitive and inaccurate to me.
I think its funny. As someone mentioned the "little bunny foo foo". I would sing that song to my kids with the hand motions when they were little.
No I would not be offended. I think if someone is truly offended by this they are wound up awfully tight.
Phoebe's was : "Oh, the cow in the meadow goes moo..." You can figure out the rest...LOL
Harmless fun.
What about Ring Around the Rosie and the alleged references to the bubonic plague? LOL
It wouldn't bother me, but at that age, my kid DID know where meat came from.
Lol! I have never heard that song. I'm not sure how I would feel about my kids singing it. It's really making me laugh though.
ETA:........Yeah, I don't think I'd be "offended". I'd probably just pull up a "How Things Are Made" video on hot dogs. Haha...
its just a silly song.. and really less morbid then ring around the rosies which is about the plague..
they hear worse things on the tv and radio
pfffffft. people are so thin-skinned any more.
i'll bet most of the people who are so horrified eat bacon.
remember 'little bunny foo-foo'?
and most nursery rhymes are incredibly dark.
i think that's a good thing.
:) khairete
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I think it's funny. If someone is offended by that, they clearly need a hobby, and a sense of humor. Oh, and to have the pole removed from their nether regions.
I think it's pretty funny - and accurate! I believe in kids understanding from the beginning where their meat and poultry and leather products come from!
Harmless!! I don't get nuts about things like this. How about the nursery
rhymes we all listened to when we were young. Never thought anything of
them then or now.
I can see vegitarians or vegans possibly being upset by this, looking for a point of veiw it may offend. My son knows very well where his food comes from.
I just couldn't resist. Here is Phoebe Buffay (Friends) singing The Barnyard Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxjlLnKoWw&feature=re...
Cracked me up!
next time someones offended by the kids song tell them to go look up the meaning of ring around the rosie....its just a fun song!
