How do we learn nursery rhymes?

I had a Mother Goose book of nursery rhymes as a child that my mother read me, and then later I read myself.

I remember learning them from my mother and also in primary school. Often they were taught with a simple tune that aids in memorization.
I also had books of poems and rhymes that were read to me, and that I read, when I could read by myself.

I can still see the illustrations of the nursery rhymes from my early childhood and hear the tunes that went with them. We had phonograph records of some of them.

My grandmother use to read them to me when I was little.

I taught them to my son. And he enjoyed them, until he was old enough to research them. There are some that even he thought were bent. Ring around the Rosie comes to mind. Grimm’s Fairy Tales and of course Hans Christian Andersen’s stories were what I grew up with. My family is Danish.

Grandma, school, parents, tv shows.

I know I learned them form books as a child. I remember the illustrations and the rhymes. This is another place where I experienced nursery rhymes. It was an early theme park. Sadly it was destroyed by flooding last year. I will never forget the giant shoe sculpture for the old woman who lived in a shoe!