The 6-7 craze offered a brief window into the hidden world of children

Many adults are breathing a sigh of relief as the 6-7 meme fades away as one of the biggest kid-led global fads of 2025. In ...
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Perfectly Unreasonable: “If The Words Don’t Rhyme, It’s Not Worth Your Time”

People have a natural inclination towards phrases that rhyme; in psychology, it’s called the “rhyme-as-reason effect”. Here, global CSO and award-winning strategy leader Leif Stromnes investigates why ...
Mental Floss

6 Forgotten Nursery Rhymes and Their Meanings

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 ...
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Rutgers basketball's European freshmen are dropping dimes and rhymes

PISCATAWAY – Chris Nwuli was open, but not by much. The Rutgers basketball freshman leaked out in transition and had a step on the defense during a 5-on-5 full-court session. On the other end, Denis ...
Billboard

CoComelon Is On a New ‘Nursery Rhyme Journey’ With ‘Melon Patch’ Series & Album (And Yes, ‘Wheels on the Bus’ Is Along for the Ride)

Billboard Family is premiering CoComelon's new rendition of "Apples and Bananas" from the live-action YouTube series, out next week. By Katie Atkinson Executive Digital Director, West Coast CoComelon ...
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Phonological awareness (emergent literacy)

Phonological awareness is an important set of skills to develop throughout early childhood and primary school. It is strongly linked to later reading and spelling success. We can think about ...
The Conversation

Antarctic leopard seal ‘songs’ are surprisingly similar to nursery rhymes

Rüdiger Riesch does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Forbes

AI Revolution Echoes Dot-Com Era: History Rhymes For Smart Investors

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. The rapid revolution occurring in artificial intelligence today bears striking resemblance to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, when countless companies ...
The Sun

Classic nursery rhyme becomes latest victim of woke madness as it’s slapped with bonkers trigger warning

It comes after a theatre production of the kids’ classic Three Little Pigs was slammed for slapping on a trigger warning NURSERY rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock has been given a trigger warning after ...
SheKnows

Why Do Teens Think Everything ‘Rhymes With Grug’? This Confusing Slang Explained

If you have a teen or tween at home, then chances are, you’ve probably heard some confusing things that “rhyme with Grug.” And, lest you waste time scratching your head and trying to figure out if ...
The Economist

Rhyme, once in its prime, is in decline

For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...