Wow… I am sitting here listening to Joe Frank on the radio, reading the story “The Runaway Bunny”. Wow, he just read the whole story. He had a problem with the same part that I did. There is a part that goes, “If you become a sailboat, I will become the wind and blow you to where I want you to go. If you become the wind and BLOW me, said the bunny, I will…. etc.” Well, it’s the part that says, “I will become the wind and blow you.”
HA… I was thinking the same thing as Joe Frank… Isn’t this supposed to be a bedtime story for little kids? I am sure that it’s pretty innocent, but still… I think about it every time I say it. Joe sort of changed it a little bit to make it nicer. HE says, “If you become a sailboat, I will become the wind and blow you all the way home. If you become the wind and BLOW me all the way home, said the bunny, I will…. etc.”
See, nicely put. In the end, mothers get what they want!
Have a carrot, said the mother bunny.
and so he did.
Monday, October 30, 2006 ~ at 10:33 am
Can’t stop guiltily giggling over here.
Monday, October 30, 2006 ~ at 2:50 pm
Hi Jenny… thanks for stopping by and commenting. Since I wrote this last night, I can’t get over how I am looking at this story in a very different light than when I first fell in love with it.
Then, I found it such a sweet story about mother’s love of her child. She will go to the ends of the earth and beyond to find her little bunny…. to make sure that he was protected…(by her!)
Now, I am pondering a mother’s control over her child. He fights and fights to get away, then in the end, he give up. Somehow I don’t like the sound of that, but we need to be in control sometimes to protect them from that which they do not understand….yet.
It’s up to us now, to recognize when our little bunnies are ready for the world and we have to let go.