The Velveteen Rabbit

[Roberty_Bob]

I was introduced to this story last week by a colleague in another group. She was providing me emotional support during some particularly traumatic child contact issues. It is a children's book first published in 1922. It is about a toy rabbit that comes alive due to the love of a child. It is all about being genuine. It rang true with me and made me cry. The take home message for me is to believe in yourself.

[Roberty_Bob]

I love reading to my children. We have spent hours pouring over Tashi's latest adventure. I made my children some beautiful bookcases for their special books. I hope their mother continues my tradition for them.

[Ladyhawke]

Hi Roberty_Bob

​Thanks so much for jogging my memory of 'The Velveteen Rabbit'. It's such a beautiful story - when the boy's love makes the rabbit real. That book together with 'The Little Prince' were my favourite books from childhood; both copies long gone - so I re-ordered both yesterday.

For anyone who likes children's books that are beautifully written and have a message for both children and adults, I can highly recommend 'The Velveteen Rabbit' and 'The Little Prince'.

(To Blondguy-you probably will shed a tear, but in a good way).

Best wishes to you Robert_Bob. I've read your thread a few times and your story provides many of us with hope to persevere.

Take care

lh

[Roberty_Bob]

I'll have to look for The Little Prince too. Thanks for the recommendation lh.

[Roberty_Bob]

Just bought The Little Prince.

[Ladyhawke]

I hope you and your children enjoy it as much as I did.

lh​

[Lazykh]

Oh my god!!! Yes I cried too! Such a beautiful story. I haven't thought about it for about 30 years...

[White_Rose]

Hello Ladyhawke

Nice to see you back on the forum. I haven't seen you around for a while. I hope all is going well for you.

Mary

[Ladyhawke]

Hi Mary,

I'm back on the forums after a break. Shortly after I posted on this thread I had a "crash" which put me in hospital for a while and it took some time for recovery. I waited a little while to come back onto the forums and started (slowly) this week.

Thank you for your very thoughtful post from last year and I'm so sorry I didn't get the chance to respond. I really hope all is OK with you and I hope to bump into you soon. I really enjoyed our contact on the forums.

LH

[White_Rose]

Once again, hello Ladyhawke, it's great to hear from you again.

Sorry you have had such a rough time and very pleased you are back again. Are you going to start a thread of your own or simply join in the conversations on different threads? Either way it will be good to catchup with you again.

My news is not so good. Picked up a virus of some sort which showed itself as intense pains in various bits of me. That's one theory from my doctor. The other is from my psychiatrist that the pain is the result of stress, in particular a huge event just about about a week before I started getting theses aches. And the third theory is a mixture of both. Both ring true for me so I am going with the third theory. Thankfully my blood test is showing the inflammation level decreasing and I can stop taking the more major pain killers. That's good because they were making me fuzzy.

It really is lovely to welcome back old friends.

Mary