That is a stupid book!

It tells your kids to speak up. There are a lot of childrens' books that really, when you look back at them, probably weren't as good as you originally thought they were. Like the cat in the hat. What does that teach you? not to let a strange cat in your house? or to clean up your mess before you mom comes home? what about the old woman who swallowed a fly? Don't eat weird things? In other news. the movie..Chicken Little, super great. and Foxy Loxy is a Girl fox.

Actually.....it goes much deeper than just aht book. All of the stories that we grew up with had serious flaws and issues if you look at them closely now. I remember have nightmares for weeks over an episode of Bugs Bunny where Foghorn Leghorn digs a hole and finds his own dad body. What the he11 is that supposed to be? Trailer Park Boys would have scarred me less then that did. Get yourself out a copy of Grimms Fairy Tales sometime if you really want to be deeply disturbed. Just think back. Think about some of the stories you were read as a child......a witch in a house of candy that eats children, little red riding hood where a wolf eats the little girls grandmother (I can't rememeber if he eats her too or if she runs away), and the original story of the little mermaid doesn't end very well either. It's scary. Actually you should really do that, go to the library and get a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales (I think it's Grimms, it's a big thick book filled with these short stories "intended" for children. It's scary.

...those stories were geared toward telling children not to go with strangers.. I'm not sure as I much approve of them, but it sure does seem the warning about strangers (and even non strangers) is very much needed today!