I'm such a baby. I was reading dd a book yesterday and started getting choked up about it :roll: Books do that to me... In my defense, I walked out of Titanic being irritated at 'Rose' for not sharing her darn piece of wood :lol:, so it's not like I just weep at everything. I don't. Dd, otoh, was happily coloring her picture, and never seemed even slightly moved. Anyone else a sap?
YES! ME! oh my gosh, right now I'm reading aloud from the Literature book and I got a little teary during a story the other day; pretty sure J was none the wiser. But, it made me look ahead and see what stories are coming up and if I'm going to have to get creative that week! or hope he'll feel more comfortable self reading by then! ha. anyway, so glad I'm not the only one...
I'm the only gal in a house full of guys. I figure they had better become accustomed to emotions somehow! LOL When they were younger I worried more about them being upset, but DS just started reading where I choked up and things were fine. (I think it also allows a child to be emotional as well.) (Imagine I'm speaking in a sheepish font...- I have avoided such read-alouds as "Where the Red Fern Grows" or "The Yearling" so they don't see Mom absolutely break down however!) MT3
Yes, I have at times too. I have a bigger problem with falling asleep while reading where I end up reading a word that isn't in the sentence
Me too!! I am crying all the time while reading. I cry at commercials too..I am just a sap. Dh calls Hallmark the crying channel because I will cry watching just about anything on there.
First time I ever read Where the Red Fern Grows, was when I was student teaching 6th grade in Grand Rapids, Ohio (near Toledo). I had NO IDEA what the plot line was, and boy, was it hard to just listen to the "real" teacher read it to the class! She told me the first time she read it aloud she was bawling her eyes out and couldn't continue. One of her students came up, took the book from her hands, and finished reading it to the class. I just can't imagine ANYONE staying dry-eyed for that one, or for Old Yeller!
For me it was The Last Battle and The Bridge to Terabithia. Both had me choked up and crying for many chapters.
I cry too! The Last Battle is hard! I cry when Aslan tells each kid they can't return to Narnia too. To be honest I cry when I read post on here that are just what I was needing and things like that too.
I couldn't read Little House on the Prarie out loud, when Laura's dog Jack gets left behind in a flooded creek and they think he's gone forever... Even though I know exactly how it ends, I bawl like a baby. Ds seemed to know it was coming, I think he was reaching for a tissue before I ever started crying. Dd is her momma's daughter, we'll cry together then laugh at ourselves for being so weepy.
I'm a real sap! Hallmark card commercials, Folger's coffee commercials, movies, not so often anymore books, ... Yesterday we took our school kids to see The Traveling Wall, the "miniature" Viet Nam War Memorial ... good thing DH had his hanky handy as I tried to explain some of what returning vets from Nam had to endure instead of getting a hero's welcome home.
oh, I flat out refuse to read Where the Red Fern Grows ever again (and, I've successfully erased the plot line from my memory, but I remember the horror I felt that we had to listen to our teacher read that story.). I just didn't read Call of the Wild, at all, 7th grade year, despite our being required to. I've never ever seen/read Lassie, Ol' Yeller, or any of "those" movies/books. I know enough of the plot that I won't go near them with a 10 foot pole. Of course, the real irony here, is that I avidly read crime/murder novels (fiction and non-fiction) and love tv shows like Criminal Minds, NCIS, etc. But I cannot handle movies/books where animals are injured or hurt. Period. I'm sure a psychologist would have a field day with me. ha!
I remember crying my eyes out over ET, lol! I took Mom, who cries over EVERYTHING, to see it, and not a tear from her. She said because she thought it was really kinda stupid....
My worst is Stellaluna (although definitely Old Yeller, the Yearling, and the Red Fern Grows fit in this category). It's the part where the mom says something like, "You are my Stellaluna". :cry: Just the thought makes me feel choked up.. and I've read that book a hundred times LOL
I was reading outloud the American Girl books...... the parents died, and one a friend of the main charictor died........
Another one that gets me is the one that has the recurring line, "I'll love you forever, my baby you'll be" ? Oh, yeah, total breakdown.
Dh refuses to read that book outloud since he always cries with it. One year his mother actually gave it to him as a gift knowing he refuses to read it just to torture him.
Oh, well if we're listing our weepers... The end of "I am Regina"....well..SEVERAL spots in I am Regina. The end of every Noel Stretfield book. The Skin Horse's monologue on "Being Real" in The Velveteen Rabbit. Oh. The list goes on. never mind, Homeschoolspot does not have enough room.
I cry over movies, books, tv shows, commercials, greeting cards, flags flying, a soldier in uniform, you name it. I am a number one weepy woman and I can't help it
