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mummy_becks 
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 6:34pm |
Does anyone else have a far to PC daycare when it comes to songs??
We have Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? 1 for the master, 1 for the dame and 1 for the boys and girls who live down the lane - instead of just the little boys who lived down the lane.
And I know an old lady who swollowed a fly, I don't know why she swollowed a fly prehaps she'll fly - instead of prehaps she'll die.
What else have you got??
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 6:55pm |
james childcare sing baa baa rainbow sheep because some study saidit will incent rasim lol now i have never seen a rainbow sheep in my life but i have seen a black one lol 
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 7:47pm |
LOL Lu. I havent heard any myself Becks but I am sure there are some there too. I have a feeling this sort of thing comes from policies and procedures of the information they can share and the learning outcomes at DC or any other learning environment.
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:04pm |
lol- yeah we have the rainbow sheep version too 
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:11pm |
yeah its quite funny i,m just waiting for the day james asked were the rainbow sheep are lol
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:25pm |
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Yep we have rainbow sheep at our daycare too! They also do a karakea (sp?) which is some kind of maori preyer thing before the eat. I know of one parent who wasnt happy about it and ended up pulling her child out because it was against thier religion but I dont think its a full on religous thing, just a wee song.
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 10:09pm |
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robyn my kids daycare does the karakea too, i think most do.
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 11:07pm |
I was reading through some info from Playcentre and they have gone overboard in the PC - trying too hard area. They replaced children with Tamariki the whole way through the booklet but that was the only thing they changed and it sounded really odd reading it. Just didnt fit. 
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 11:08pm |
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I also have a version of Puff the Magic dragon that doesnt have the sad ending!
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mummy_becks
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Posted: 05 March 2008 at 11:11pm |
The boys daycare say a karakia as well and i'm happy for that (being part Maori). I just don't like the screwing of the words in the songs.
Puff the Magic Dragon is meant to be sad at the ending , how do they make it happy??
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Posted: 06 March 2008 at 1:56am |
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at my preschool we never had to change anything..in fact at all the ones i had worked at...sounds really sad..its not very preparing them for life kinda thing is it..:( i read them the old lady book the day before i left with the right words..they were like' yeah she wold die if she ate a horse' :) lol..
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Posted: 06 March 2008 at 8:19am |
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They just didnt sing the last verse of Puff, the one when jacky paper came no more. I was very disappointed as I LOVED that sond when I was litle.
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Posted: 06 March 2008 at 8:24am |
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A rainbow sheep!! haha are you serious!!
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Posted: 06 March 2008 at 9:03am |
I think its a bit silly really - I mean little kids arent going to be thinking about racism when they sing BaaBaa Black sheep..unless there is a lot of racism in the home already.
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Posted: 06 March 2008 at 9:37am |
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OMG!!! thats just like santa not being able to say hohoho anymore
its rediculas
no child who believes in santa would think hohoho ment anything horrible
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Posted: 06 March 2008 at 11:58am |
I agree that the PC brigade has gone a little overboard with some things.
I still have the book "Little Black Sambo" from when I was a kid - it was written in 1896 or something I think, long before any of this was an "issue".
But isn't it a fact of life that some people are black & some are white etc?? just as sheep are 
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Posted: 06 March 2008 at 6:24pm |
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Yeah, my sister wasn't allowed to teach Oma Rapiti (sorry if I butchered the spelling) because of the gun in it.
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 7:44pm |
no more oma rapiti?!? But that's a kiwi institution!! And this, coming from the girl who burst into tears over Cambell Live last night when a pregnant cat got spayed! If I don't think the rabbit-gun song is offensive, I don't see who could!
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 8:52pm |
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I have noticed it yet at ours the songs I have heard them sing I have never heard of before it seems pretty stupid to me too.
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Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:14pm |
 nzpiper wrote:
I also have a version of Puff the Magic dragon that doesnt have the sad ending! |
LOL I love Puff the Magic dragon too, and probably more so when I found out it was all about being high.
As for rabbits and guns, rabbits are a huge pest in NZ and should be treated as such, not the fluffy cute things they're made out to be.
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