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Rhymes have been taught to children for hundreds of years, with many dating from the Middle Ages. They are the first tools of education that children use for learning language and counting skills. In addition, they combine movement and music teaching children rhythm and melody.

But a recent study of more than 40% of parents can not recite a single rhyme throughout.

Many cultures around the world have their own indigenous nursery rhymes, but most of the rhymes are the best known in England and, more recently, the United States.

Many nursery rhymes were originally political commentary at a time when freedom of expression is punishable by imprisonment or even death, especially if you criticized the government of the day.

Others refer to the news of the day rhymes. It is believed that Ring Ring O Roses' refers to the bubonic plague, while Remember Remember the Gun Powder Plot commemorates when Guy Fawkes and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament, an event that is still celebrated in England November 5!

Some rhymes are very violent -

Rock A Bye Baby

Rock Baby Bye
On the top of the tree,
When the wind blows
The Cradle Will Rock
When the Bough Breaks
The cradle will fall
Down will come cradle
Baby and all.

Or

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill
Hill climbs
To get a pail of water

Jack fell
And broke his crown
And Jill have collapsed after

The first known nursery rhymes was Tommy Thumb's Song Book Pretty, published in London in 1744. But probably the best known was Mother Goose's Melody: or Sonnets for the Cradle, published by John Newberry in 1781. Incorporated in the United States in 1785 by Isaiah Thomas, its popularity is attested by the fact that these verses are still commonly called "rhymes" in the United States.

Even if you think you should try to rewrite parts of words to make them less violent, you should not. Psychoanalysts and educators, efforts to make rhymes and fairy tales are politically correct an error. They feel they are a way to solve problems symbolically and imagination allow children to violence and danger.

Go to the library or at your local bookstore and buy a book of nursery rhymes , or download some of the Internet. Then, by teaching your children Rhymes and acting on the movements with them you will have fun while teaching them the language and counting at the same time as reading, building a bond and from fuel combustion .