Studying speech and language pathology I had heard again and again about the fact that babies love language, and that they really appreciate rhymes. They love rhymes so, they would all say! I believed them. But not until I had my third child did I decide to take the experts up on the rhyming piece in a black and white nursery rhyme sort of way. So my daughter heard the frequent recital of this rhyme at diaper changes, bedtime, playtime, any old time: