Who is Dr. Seuss?
Is he the man many of us idolized?
I received an Email over the weekend from my son’s kindergarten teacher, enclosed was the school’s detailed description of how they planned to celebrate Dr. Seuss the first week of March. I read the contents and made a mental note of my son’s expectations for the following week. In celebration of the author his books would be read, pajamas and crazy socks were encouraged to be worn by students and staff all week long.
I saw my son off to school today, meeting his bus at the corner of our street and waving my goodbye to him as the bus proceeded to it’s next stop. It was then that I had an alert on my phone informing me of a notification on my Instagram account. In the process of scrolling the time-line laid out for me, I came across an article notifying me of several books that would no longer be published. The books were said to portray hurtful and offensive imagery. The author of said books was none other than Dr. Seuss!
This new information brought a curiosity to me I felt compelled to itch. Who did I grow up reading as a kid? Should I be worried about the information my son retains today at school? Why was the selected books being canceled now, and not twenty years ago?
Today is March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss, he was born in 1904 at a hospital in Springfield…
