Is this the original version, then? My parents briefly had a book with similar front cover and same title, which outlined all the places a budding Senior Citizen could look forward to visiting (doctors of all sorts and their infamous waiting rooms).
Wow! Dr Seuss and weird flashbacks to a 70’s childhood of strange fabrics and lots of hair and my dad with a moustache and energy crises and presidents resigning and and and and
Reading that poem makes me laugh when i see the way we are publicly raising this generation of children…just put the word “don’t” in front of everything and then the kid will be safe. What was he thinking telling them they have to get out there, be themselves, expect disappointment and joy and surprise and danger!
Sorry to sound like a rant but here in Britain (the world’s most successful third world country) we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in europe and yet we have the most sex educated generation that has ever existed. No matter how much we like to “protect” or caution children and keep them from discovering the world, they will discover it and probably be worse prepared for it because we just left them to it with an instruction manual rather than advice. Who reads instruction manuals before they screw up the project?
Thank you Almostgotit for reminding us that the best advice is go for it (but watch indiana jones first just to learn that stepping forward and then stepping back sometimes stops a lot of pointy edged sliding doors from squishing you on the way to treasure and adventure) and be a kid.
Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!
January 29th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Is this the original version, then? My parents briefly had a book with similar front cover and same title, which outlined all the places a budding Senior Citizen could look forward to visiting (doctors of all sorts and their infamous waiting rooms).
January 29th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I think there have been a few take-offs on the idea, but yes… this is the original Seuss.
February 1st, 2010 at 4:02 am
Wow! Dr Seuss and weird flashbacks to a 70’s childhood of strange fabrics and lots of hair and my dad with a moustache and energy crises and presidents resigning and and and and
Reading that poem makes me laugh when i see the way we are publicly raising this generation of children…just put the word “don’t” in front of everything and then the kid will be safe. What was he thinking telling them they have to get out there, be themselves, expect disappointment and joy and surprise and danger!
Sorry to sound like a rant but here in Britain (the world’s most successful third world country) we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in europe and yet we have the most sex educated generation that has ever existed. No matter how much we like to “protect” or caution children and keep them from discovering the world, they will discover it and probably be worse prepared for it because we just left them to it with an instruction manual rather than advice. Who reads instruction manuals before they screw up the project?
Thank you Almostgotit for reminding us that the best advice is go for it (but watch indiana jones first just to learn that stepping forward and then stepping back sometimes stops a lot of pointy edged sliding doors from squishing you on the way to treasure and adventure) and be a kid.
February 1st, 2010 at 4:03 am
Oh and thank you for tolerating run on sentences…
February 6th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!