to think that Big Nutbrown Hare...

[caramelchameleeeeeon]

...is a bit of an areshole?

He's so competitive against his own child, to the point where he's muttering under his breath as the kid sleeps just because he has to have the last word.

We get it, big man. You've got longer arms and you're better at this than your toddler. Well done you.

DS1 bloody loves Hug. It's driving me slowly round the bend. Thankfully he has no time for competitive dad hare.

Neighbour's little girl (under one) gets the rage whenever her parents pull out Guess How Much I Love You. Bats it out of their hands with a roar as soon as she sees the cover. She's marvellous

A house divided...

When I was little we had a song on cassette tape that was about how much the little kids loved Jesus. The verse had little pauses where each of the kids shouted out the thing that they loved Jesus more than. At the time I remember thinking how odd it was.

"more than...peanut butter"
"more than...crayons"
"more than...yellow"

I think No Matter What is a better book about the infinity of parental love, it still has me in tears every time I read it.

I was thinking the same thing yesterday! Read it to my 4 month old so she didn't understand but by the end I was thinking I know how this ends, cant believe you are really going to trump your own child on that one?!
I was relieved when it said the little one was asleep.

What Crumbs said. It's not about one up man ship.

Male hares have pretty miserable lives so may well be quite bitter. (And they never see their kids. Though even mum hares only visit the leverets for a few minutes a day.)

I see your competitive dad and raise you the emotionally abusive "Not now, Bernard" 😡

I love it, it's not one-upmanship, it's all about infinite love.

I actually used to cry reading this to DD when I was all hormonal.

No Matter What is a beautiful book but so hard to read to the end!!!

This book always made me vom. It's like a print version of the John Lewis ad.

The picture are so cute and big nut brown hare loves his kid more than anything - you story stealers!

I taught DD to say 'love you to the Event Horizon and back' ( furthest point in the known and knowable universe) to always win this one..

YANBU. Awful.

Yanbu. So godawfully twee. Give me Where The Wild Things Are any day (or "Where They Are" as toddler dd calls it).