Like most things that you consume as a child, you don’t get the subtle and possibly unhealthy undertones until you’re an adult. My 7 year old had the scrunchy face look going on because she could tell something was not quite right with this woman, but she doesn't have enough life experience yet to pinpoint what it is. Parental Love Song: The "I'll Love you Forever" song is about how the woman will love her son no matter what. The story explores not only the young boy’s life but also the mother’s and her journey through aging. The dad sneaking in on the teenage daughter to hold her, or later on when she's married he's climbing through her window to her bed?

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But Robert Munsch simply overexaggerated while portraying this message, and finally made me see a totally different message in this book: That a mother's love justifies stalking her children and entering into their lives in one of the creepiest and most disturbing ways - by climbing a ladder to her son's bedroom, entering the house and picking her son up to rock him back and forth while he's sleeping. The fact that the book shows it as something of a anomoly makes the child (or at least ME as a child) think there is something REAL to fear in seperation. If you send me your version, either as a tape or an audio file or a MR3 file, I will try to put it up in the LOVE YOU page.

Love You Forever presents the unconditional love that parents are expected to have for their children, despite the behavior of those children as they grow up. Ambiguously Absent Parent: We never see the boy's dad, or the mother of his daughter that he cradles in the last page. I would like to put different versions of the song up on this site, now that the site has sound on it. She opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed; and if he was really asleep she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

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The next scene shows the man cradling his own newborn daughter as he sings his mother’s lullaby to her. Between temper tantrums and the inadvertent messes, sometimes the peaceful way they look when they sleep make up for it. Love You Forever shows the existence of unconditional love and how important of a role the reciprocation of love plays in the development of future relationships.We've got breaking-and-entering here, along with the fact that we never once see this woman tell her son she loves him while he is, oh, I don't know, AWAKE. I realize that the mother sneaking into her grown son's house via a ladder is supposed to be kind of funny (at least I hope it is), but it is still creepy and weird! Munsch does a wonderful job of displaying the young boys progression through the different stages in life. Furthermore, Munsch addresses the underling theme of stereotypes towards gender roles in the upbringing of a child by completely contrasting the stereotype, effectively displaying how irrelevant of a role gender plays in the ability to show affection and nurture a child. When he has a daughter, though we don't see much of her, he seems to be a loving father, singing her to sleep.