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Originally posted by viet_mom
BTW - on the Children's books topics, there have been some books we've gotten (gifts/hand-me-downs) that I've yanked from the shelf for different reasons. Some, because we're not ready to deal with "where is my real mother" yet (so I've put aside "The Story of Babar", where the elephant's Mommy gets killed on page 2 . . . . .
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Has anyone read, "Love You Forever", Robert Munsch? Does it really have a Mom who is a stalker and drives to her son's house with a ladder on top of her car to break in so she can rock her adult son? And the son fondling his elderly mother in a rocking chair?
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(a) My daughter loves Babar, but that book does take some creative reading. When we read it, the wicked hunter made babr's Mommy fall down, and then the Elephant King was just too sick to be King any more.
(b) The Munsch book sounds creepy -- but the same could be said of the psycho-stalker Mom in "Runaway Bunny." I think we adults just approach these things from a less innocent perspective than kids do and perhaps most people once did. After all, if your parents love you and would never harm you (as little kids should feel) -- how could it be bad to have them around your whole life?
S_A_M
