Re: LM_NET Digest - 28 Jun 19...

["Dr. Dana McDougald" <dmcdouga@MOE.COE.UGA.EDU>]

I agree with you -- I sobbed when I read this book, and gave a copy to my
daughter and to my son, whose wife is now expecting a baby.  Of course,
if you take it literally it is silly, but the love expressed in this book
is real to me.


Dana McDougald, Media Specialist
Cedar Shoals H. S.
Athens, Ga. 30605
dmcdouga@moe.coe.uga.edu


On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, Cecil Ralph Roberts wrote:

> I have -Love You Forever- which is the correct title in my library. The
> children and teachers like it.  I find it to be a very touching and
> emotional book, so I seldom read it aloud, but I do recommend it to
> students and teachers.  I think children see it as the author
> intended- to show a mother's love for her children. To me it just
> illustrates how mothers love their children forever.  I think the book is
> written as much for adults as for children because we have the memories
> of mother's and father's love and care.
> I don't think the author wanted to show a "strange lady" checking up on
> her grown son.  He just wanted to show that love is forever. CRR@Tenet.edu
> On Thu, 29 Jun
> 1995, Shannon Acedo wrote:
>
> > I think it's important to discuss complex issues and emotions with
> > students, but what I don't like to bring up with my 5 year old when she
> > begs me to read _I'll always love you_ is how wierd it seems to me that
> > this woman has nothing else in her life but her son, and how strange it
> > seems that she follows him around and checks up on him (when he's grown
> > and gone) while he's sleeping.  My daughter likes it, and I don't need
> > her to share my view that it seems unhealthy.  When she's bigger we can
> > go into the complexities a bit more thoroughly.
> >
> > Shannon Acedo (acedos@marlborough.la.ca.us)
> > Marlborough School
> > 250 S. Rossmore Ave.
> > Marlborough School
> > Los Angeles CA 90004
> > (213)935-1147
> >
>