CENTURIES-OLD nursery rhymes that have been an integral part of growing up for generations are at risk of being wiped out. Time-poor parents, screen games and modern animated favourites like Peppa Pig ...

I realized while baby-sitting my 2-year-old granddaughter that, silly as they are, I still know them by heart. The words of these old nursery rhymes remain with me, I think, because I learned them ...

Check out this list of children’s nursery rhymes and the stories behind them.

It's a lucky babe who is sung to sleep with a nursery rhyme, soothing and rhythmic, just like a mother's heartbeat. And the rhymes date back centuries. Still, "for all their popularity, most of us don ...

Bedbug-free generations that believed the insect bloodsucker is no more than a silly bedtime rhyme — Don’t let the bedbugs bite! — must face reality in the 21st century. They’re baacckk. Maybe not in ...