Chivvy poem I want to read the poem

Chivvy :


Ask yourself as well as your partner. Do you like to be always told what to do or not to do? Do grown-ups do this in your experience? When Michael was five years old, his mother took him to a nearby school for admission. The teacher asked, ?What does your mother call you at home, child?" ?Michael Don?t," came the confident reply.


Note : To chivvy is to nag, ?to continuously urge someone to do something, often in an annoying way", according to the dictionary. Read the poem now.


Grown-ups say things like:

Speak up

Don?t talk with your mouth full

Don?t stare

Don?t point

Don?t pick your nose

Sit up

Say please

Less noise

Shut the door behind you

Don?t drag your feet

Haven?t you got a hankie?

Take your hands out of

your pockets

Pull your socks up

Stand up straight

Say thank you

Don?t interrupt

No one thinks you?re funny

Take your elbows off the table

Can?t you make your own

mind up about anything?


~Michael Rosen