Lessons from Nursery Rhymes.

   Everything can be an opportunity to teach a life lesson when you are a parent. Sometimes the lessons come from child's action, sometimes from behavior of others. Sometimes life lessons will emerge from something someone else said, and sometimes yet there is a natural lesson in a story. But other times a lesson can be taken from a Nursery Rhyme for little kids. To tell the truth, many Nursery Rhymes are full of life lessons, and that's why many parents are eager to tech them to their youngsters.

   There are many nursery rhymes that teach lessons. Humpty Dumpty is a great poem about how much harder it is to put together something that was broken, so our kids should take care of their special things. Another great one is Georgie Porgie, a rhyme about a boy who was brave enough to bother little girls but wasn't brave to bother boys. It provides a great lesson about how cowardly bullies are. Little Boy Blue is another one of my favorites, and it's a really good one to spark a conversation about responsibilities.

It's poetic!

 As part of our homeschool curriculum, I have decided that we will study Poetry. Why do I think that poetry is needed in lessons for 9, 5, and 3 year old? It's because I think that poetry has more to offer to students than mere words. It provides opportunity for examining words as conveyors of not only meaning but also feelings. Poetry gives the kids an opportunity to practice their memory and learn to express themselves in few words. It can also help them in grammar by teaching rhyming, poetic terms like oxymoron or onomatopoeia, or metaphors, composition, and word use. Poetry can help kids paint verbal imagery with words. Poetry is ....... well, poetic.
   Teaching poetry to kids doesn't have to be a chore, even if you are not particularly fond of poetry. At younger age, Nursery Rhymes are a perfect introduction to poetry. Rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, Jack be Nimble, or Hickory, Dickory, Dock, or songs like Baa, Baa Black Sheep, or Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star are fun for even the youngest of children to memorize.