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Nov. 18th, 2004 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33I was reading an article about how nursery rhymes are more violent than British TV when the quote below cracked me up:
"That noises in the dark are caused by the resident monster under the bed is well known to any child, but adults are more likely to blame passing wind or other natural phenomena," they write in the December issue of the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
I have never suggested to Kieran that a fart was to blame instead of a monster, but the idea is rather entertaining. Is this some nuance of British childrearing that I wasn't previously aware of? In my opinion, anyone who sings a full hour of nursery rhymes is insane. Who can honestly stand more than one or two of them before moving on to something else?
"That noises in the dark are caused by the resident monster under the bed is well known to any child, but adults are more likely to blame passing wind or other natural phenomena," they write in the December issue of the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
I have never suggested to Kieran that a fart was to blame instead of a monster, but the idea is rather entertaining. Is this some nuance of British childrearing that I wasn't previously aware of? In my opinion, anyone who sings a full hour of nursery rhymes is insane. Who can honestly stand more than one or two of them before moving on to something else?
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Date: 2004-11-18 11:53 am (UTC)