The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes [SCM]

This is one of my favorite parenting books. Granted, it is not your average parenting book; it’s a children’s fairy tale about Easter bunnies and eggs. I can take or leave the fairy tale part of the story, but the part that I love is how the mother bunny teaches and trains her twenty-one little bunnies to do the household chores. In the end, it’s that teaching and training that demonstrates her wisdom and earns her the honor of the old Grandfather rabbit.
Whenever I get discouraged in teaching and training chores, I read this simple little book. It helps me focus again on the end goal and encourages me to keep on.
I’m extremely disappointed in the review of this book that is posted on Amazon.com and some other book sources on the Internet. It is not a feminist story as some claim. The mother bunny spent years dedicated to her children without a thought of pursuing a “career.” And when she was unexpectedly selected to be an Easter bunny, she was gone from home for only one night. In the morning she went home, hung up her gold shoes, and continued her important work of being a mother.