Make a mobile like the one on the last page of the book, with pictures of you and your family.ĭraw a portrait of your family today, and on the back of the paper, a portrait of your family when you are all grown up. How did the mother?s love help him as he grew up? Have them clap out the syllables in the refrain.ĭo your parents sing to you? What songs do they sing? What is the Mom saying to her son?Īsk if the students know what syllables are. Have the kids repeat the refrain with you. When you are at school do you ever think about your family? What do you think about? Do you think they think about you?ĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: Looking at the cover, what do you think that this book is about? What do you think the mother of this boy is thinking right now?ĭo you drive your parents crazy sometimes? Do they drive you crazy? Do you love them anyway? Then, inevitably, the day comes when she's too old and sick to hold him, and the roles are at last reversed.

When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing through her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way. So far so ordinary-but this is one persistent lady. The mother sings to her sleeping baby: 'I'll love you forever / I'll like you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be.' She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen.

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