Re: LM_NET Digest - 28 Jun 19...

[Cecil Ralph Roberts <crr@TENET.EDU>]

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
>