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Do you cry whilst reading to the children?

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MrsNormanMaine · 20/11/2008 20:52

I just read The Story of Holly and Ivy (Rummer Godden) to my children (5 and 3) and burst into tears. I do get very into the reading and I loved it when I was a child. Maybe due to recent bereavements (parents) or just being older and a parent myself - or being a sentimental nutter - but have you sobbed openly due to being moved by a story you are reading to your children? How did they react? What did you say?

My daughter was concerned and sweet, my son thought it was hilarious but was also very sweet and tried to get me to read the same bit over and over to see if it kept happening. All in all I think it added something!

I did the same thing reading The Diddakoi (when the Does were going to send Joe to the knackers). Must stop with Rummer Godden!

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PerkinWarbeck · 20/11/2008 21:53

oh yes, at peepo, and guess how much I love you.

DD is currently obsessed with MOG books, and the only one they had at the library today was "goodbye mog". I had to hide it as I am sooo not ready to read that one to her.

cutekids · 20/11/2008 21:48

don't want to hijack this,but how do you react when your kids ask about DIANA? I was never a great fan or anything...but,whenever she appears on the screen and the kids ask about "that Princess", I get quite choked.Kids look at me like i'm off my head!

SmallerClanger · 20/11/2008 21:45

The last Pooh Bear story where they walk off into an enchanted place and we leave them there...

ObamasPinkPussyCat · 20/11/2008 21:45

Oh the end of Peepo - agree with you there bamboo.

bamboostalks · 20/11/2008 21:42

I cried at the end of Michael Morpogo's Kensuke's Kingdom. I had not read it before hand and was so moved. It became the stuff of legend in my school, the Year 6's couldn't believe it. I get very choked at Peepo with my own dd, I think it is so evocative of my grandparents, it gets me every time, the love bounces off the page.

used2bthin · 20/11/2008 21:41

Forgot about Owl babies that one gets me too!

Wheelybug · 20/11/2008 21:39

Agree with 'house inside my Mummy' - have just bought it for dd as am pregnant and DH laughed as I sat there sobbing as I read it to her (pregnancy hormones...)

misselizabethbennet · 20/11/2008 21:36

I have literally never been able to read the the whole of 'Guess How Much I Love You' without sobbing. It's the laying him down in the bed of leaves and whispering with a smile that kills me every time.

Also, the verses to the song 'Too-Ra-Loo-Ra' are impossible to sing without crying.

And the 'Mum' part of monkey puzzle.

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BibiThree · 20/11/2008 21:35

"No Matter What" - simply cannot read it. DD now knows tis a Daddy book and doesn't ask for it when I put her to bed.

mankyscotslass · 20/11/2008 21:31

"I love you forever" always gets me crying, and DD loves it....

mabanana · 20/11/2008 21:27

er, sob...

mabanana · 20/11/2008 21:27

"And a mother with a baby, just like him" (SOBE!)

gladbag · 20/11/2008 21:24

Gaspod - I used to do that too, with certain stories, reading to my class. Pathetic, isn't it

dilemma456 · 20/11/2008 21:20

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Pawslikepaddington · 20/11/2008 21:13

He he, at least dd was 4 so was worried! . I bet he would have comforted his mum though in that scenario! Gosh that is a chokey book!

GaspodTheWonderDog · 20/11/2008 21:11

I was reading Dogger to a year one class a while ago, I got all choked up. One of the children said 'Mrs Gaspod are you (insert suitably scathing amount of 6yr old disbelief)crying?'
Me:'Ahem...no'
Scathing child:'so what's wrong with your voice'
Me 'Nothing, now sit still and listen'

LostGirl · 20/11/2008 21:08

I cried too when Sophie's aunt died, dd thought I was mad! Always and Forever, and love you forever finish me off every time . Was thinking about reading HOlly and Ivy to dd(5) in the run up to chritmas. Did your two enjoy it?

nobodysfool · 20/11/2008 21:04

Here you go mrsnormanmaine
Have a good weep.
www.lyricsfreak.com/p/peter,+paul+&+mary/puff+magic+dragon_20107715.html

MrsMattie · 20/11/2008 21:02

I cry with boredom when reading Thomas and Mr Men

Pawslikepaddington · 20/11/2008 21:01

Also cried at lunchtime hearing KS1 rehearsing for the christmas concert-what is it about children's singing?

Pawslikepaddington · 20/11/2008 21:00

I cried at Dogger and had to stop reading. Cry at all her films too, and had such a sudden loud outburst of crying at Wall-E the whole cinema laughed.

StopSittingOnTheBabyPlease · 20/11/2008 21:00

I read "There's a house inside my mummy" over and over to DD1 whilst pregnant with DS. It's recently been rediscovered and there's definitely a quiver in my voice.

Also agree with Monkey Puzzle "...Mum!" sniff sniff

JackieNo · 20/11/2008 21:00

Oh yes - the bit in the sophie books where her great aunt dies . And lots of others.

hester · 20/11/2008 20:59

Owl Babies, Guess How Much I Love You, How To Catch A Star, Small.... I spend my evenings in a snotty, teary mess while my dd pats me soothingly and asks, "Are you better now, Mummy?"