Far too PC
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Topic: Far too PC
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Far too PC
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 6:34pm
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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?? ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: james
Date 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 ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 7:47pm
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:04pm
lol- yeah we have the rainbow sheep version too 
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:11pm
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yeah its quite funny i,m just waiting for the day james asked were the rainbow sheep are lol ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:25pm
| 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. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 10:09pm
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robyn my kids daycare does the karakea too, i think most do. ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date 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 By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 11:08pm
| I also have a version of Puff the Magic dragon that doesnt have the sad ending! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 05 March 2008 at 11:11pm
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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 ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date 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.. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 8:19am
| 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. |
Posted By: Kallie
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 8:24am
| A rainbow sheep!! haha are you serious!! |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 9:03am
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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 By: Candkids
Date 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 ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
Posted By: sally belly
Date Posted: 06 March 2008 at 11:58am
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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 By: JadeC
Date 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. ------------- http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 7:44pm
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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! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date 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. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:14pm
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. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
nzpiper wrote:Posted By: AuntieSarah
Date Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:32pm
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Lol have heard of the rainbow sheep but have always sung baa baa black sheep in every centre I've been in. Other teachers in my centre I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...perhaps she'll cry I just say die. The other teachers sometimes don't look that pleased. I don't care! It's blimmin ridiculous.
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