Anticipating people\u2019s outage over the suggestion of banning children\u2019s songs, Ms Rachel had a simple solution:<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are like, \u201cWhat will we do? What will we do?\u201d when I\u2019m like, you know how many wonderful nursery rhymes and kids\u2019 songs exist? And we can make new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many people on social media expressed surprise at learning that Eeny, meeny, miny, moe originally included a slur. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn \u2018eenie meenie\u2019 in Ireland, at least where I\u2019m from, the words were always \u2018catch a tiger by the toe\u2019. Imagine my shock when I found out what the actual lyrics were as an adult the \u201cn\u201d word wasn\u2019t a thing where I grew up (back end of nowhere Ireland),” one person wrote on TikTok.<\/p>\n
Ms Rachel also mentioned a fourth nursery rhyme which she said did not need to be banned but should be updated.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome nursery rhymes and kids\u2019 songs need to be retired. Some I think can be changed. Like, I feel like \u2018The Three Little Kittens\u2019 should not be denied the pie,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A parent commenting on the video agreed with Ms Rachel. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel so seen for hating the three little kittens rhyme. She didn\u2019t even mention the worst part, where the mom tells them to put on their mittens to eat the pie and then SCOLDS THEM FOR GETTING THEM DIRTY?? Genuinely always hated that rhyme even when I was a kid,\u201d the parent wrote.<\/p>\n
Other social media users mentioned other nursery rhymes they thought should be updated:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy the mommy on the bus gotta say shh shh shhhh but daddy gets to say I love you,\u201d one person said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFive little monkeys doesn\u2019t sit well with my spirit either,\u201d another person said.<\/p>\n
You can watch the full, uncut episode of Ms Rachel on Subway Takes below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anticipating people\u2019s outage over the suggestion of banning children\u2019s songs, Ms Rachel had a simple solution: \u201cPeople are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19053,6030,4749,9539,40124,29194,156,75115,13840,19033,13631,111,139,34311,69,23277,37410,25319,12860,1517,127450,10534,26639,223,61,6730],"class_list":["post-610853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-activist","tag-again","tag-childrens","tag-content","tag-creator","tag-educator","tag-entertainment","tag-hear","tag-like","tag-ms","tag-never","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nursery","tag-nz","tag-rachel","tag-rather","tag-retired","tag-revealed","tag-reveals","tag-rhymes","tag-see","tag-shed","tag-the","tag-to","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}