NinjaKeyblader

tragic and adorable!

Get you friends who can do both

This is so perfect!

so no-one told you life was gonna be this way *dun dun*

@rpg-princess

how universal of an experience is having the giving tree read to you as a small child and being distraught even tho the teacher seemed to think it was a nice story. also is this a gendered phenomenon. do girlchildren know on some level that they’re the tree not the little boy

Children designated as “gifted and talented” frequently melt down because of this story.  Boys and girls both. I’ve heard many G&T educators say they don’t bring The Giving Tree or The Rainbow Fish into their classrooms at all because of it.

Wow, what is it about gifted and talented kids that makes those stories hit them so hard?

The giving tree horrified me as a child.

i’ve always been deeply unsettled by the giving tree. i remember the teacher having A Talk with my mom when she came to pick me up from school one day because my reaction to the book being read in class was to burst into tears and scream about how everyone in the room was “a bunch of monsters” for thinking it was a happy story.

I was a G&T kid that was totally confused by why other kids weren’t crying at the end.  Until now I didn’t put it together with the fact that I was identifying with the tree, not the kid.