We grow up with these songs – these lyrical and melodic earworms, that continue to be passed down the generations. Here are 10 of the all-time best nursery rhymes. We may not immediately think of them ...

A Hong Kong parent writes: We often sing nursery rhymes with our daughter at home, but she doesn’t seem to sing any at her international kindergarten. I presumed this was an important and natural part ...

Recently, I found a beautiful 19th century children’s book called Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. In it, illustrator Kate Greenaway had drawn the demure expressions and swan-like curvatures ...

You know what comes next - don’t you? Even if it’s been the best part of your lifetime since you last heard it, the next line has popped into your head right on cue. That’s the incredible staying ...

BOSTON (CBS) - 1,500 Boston school children sang and danced in public places Thursday to get their peers ready for school. The program Countdown For Kindergarten held a nursery rhyme-singing "flash ...

Ring a Ring o Rosie isn't about the plague, Mary Mary Quite Contrary isn't about Queen Mary and Humpty Dumpty wasn't a cannon used during the English Civil War. Loading... Despite the proliferation of ...

The popular nursery rhyme may have emerged in the 14th century—and it didn’t have anything to do with bathing. That said, the lyrics of “Rub-a-Dub-Dub” refer to a decidedly adult situation. Oral ...

Goosey Goosey Gander may be about religious persecution, while Lucy Locket is about 18th Century prostitutes, writes Clemency Burton-Hill. Plague, medieval taxes, religious persecution, prostitution: ...