Jump to content

Talk:Childlore

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Comment

[edit]

"Opie and Opie demonstrate that the culture of children is quite distinctive and is as unnoticed by the sophisticated world, and quite as little affected by it, as is the culture of some dwindling aboriginal tribe living out its helpless existence in the hinterland of a native reserve." -- Referring to aboriginals as having a "helpless existence" is very editorial (and rather racist). If it is, as I'm assuming, a direct quote from the source, it should be called out as a quote, not stated inline as a fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.255.1.195 (talk) 09:20, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Unfortunately, although I have the Opie's books, I do not have the Grider, so this may take some time for me to track down the quote.--SabreBD (talk) 10:01, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Further reading

[edit]

Franklin, Rosalind (2005). Baby Lore: Superstitions & Old Wives Tales From The World Over Related to Pregnancy, Birth & Babycare. Diggory Press, United Kingdom. ISBN 0-9515655-4-0.

This source seems to have little to do with children's folklore, so I'm removing it from the Further reading section. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:42, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Narrow Focus

[edit]

This article seems problematic; the intro names several different topics within the field of child lore yet the only one that the article discusses is nursery rhymes. This article just reads like a report on nursery rhymes; can we fix this? Maybe add sections on playground games, modern adaptions of nursery rhymes, and activities like the “Cheese Touch” which I’m sure is a category with an actual name, I just don’t know the term for it. Spicybeans420 (talk) 09:47, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]