Mother Goose was also a bad parent. Consider:

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
She whipped them all soundly, and put them to bed.

Whipped them soundly? I demand that she go to rehab.

(people, the rehab quip is social commentary; mull it over)