Well, I wanted to create a similiar experience for my grandchildren but I'm thinking that I screwed it up first night out!
Ken bought some books years ago that have "character building" themes. When bedtime rolled around and they wanted a story, I thought of those books. I grabbed one which was entitled, "Believe in Yourself." It was about Louis Pasteur...you know, the guy who developed the process for pasteurizing milk. Well, here's something you may not know...he also developed the rabies vaccine. Yea...so here I am reading this "bedtime story" all about a little boy, Joey, who is teasing a foaming-at-the-mouth rabid dog with a stick and gets bit. The "invisible enemy" (germs) enter the boy and make him sick, near certain death. But his parents bring him to Dr. Pasteur who uses a "shot with the biggest needle ever" full of "magical soldiers" to kill the invisible enemy. Ok...to fully appreciate this post, you just have to see these pictures from the book....and be sure to click on the pictures.


So, okay, am I the worst Grandma ever or what? This has got to be the scariest kid book ever written! Poor 4 year old Kylie keeps asking me during the story, "Grandma, do I have any invisible enemies in me?" and "Do I have to get a shot so I don't get rabies?" So okay, from here on out, I'm stickin' with princess stories....sorry, grandson's! And then this morning she woke up feeling brave, I guess, because she begs me to read about the "invisible enemies" again because she isn't afraid anymore.....ah, yea, right, over my dead body!!!
1 comment:
Haha! Oh man, that is awful! I remember looking through those books several years ago and I was just laughing, because they all had some kind of random twist. Rabies or maybe someone slicing off a finger, yup, that will keep the kids interested! Love it!
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