Mother goose rhymes, nonsense verse, and playful fantasy are essential to our mental health.
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Revolutionary Mother Goose
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Read Your Kids Nonsense Poems
I taught Alice in Wonderland a couple of weeks ago and found myself thrown back to wonderful childhood memories of my father reading me Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poetry. Authority figures in the book are always ordering Alice to recite instructional verse, like Issac Watts’ “Against Idleness and Mischief” or Robert Southey’s “The Old Man’s Comforts […]
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