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I'm excited that we are going to be reading Uncle Daddy. It seems like a cute book
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1. When River's father first appeared, Uncle Daddy was not happy, to say the least. As the story goes on however, he seems to accept that he is back. Do you think maybe Uncle Daddy felt threatened at first that the father suddenly appeared after all those years?
2. Do you think it was appropriate of the father to have told Rivers about his drug problem?
1.) It struck me as odd while I was reading that Rivers’ mother and Uncle Daddy would let Rivers’ father take him for a ride after only a 30 minute conversation. The father left six years ago and never came back. I think that Rivers’ fear and thoughts of the movies about kids being kidnapped by their fathers was completely justified.
If that happened to you would you let your son drive off with this man?
2.) I was very impressed with both Rivers and Taylor regarding the invitation of Ethan to the celebration at Uncle Daddy’s school for Rivers Un-Birthday. If there was someone who picked on me as much as Ethan picked on Rivers, I’m not sure I could be as honest. Would you have done the same thing?
I also thought it was too soon for the mom to let Rivers go for a drive with the dad. She could have let the dad visit at the house, but not take him anywhere. That created a lot of worry for Rivers, who had seen children get kidnapped in the movies. Plus Uncle daddy had joked about it.
I really liked how Uncle Daddy had been saving all those memories for Rivers. I wonder if he knew something was wrong with him?
What happened to the mom's blind date? They never mention him again. Just when she is ready to date again her husband returns from a six year absence. Do you think it was even necessary to include the blind date in the book?
I think that inviting Ethan to the Un-Birthday was a great thing for Rivers to do. It changed their whole relantionship with each other. However, I don't think that Rivers realized such an outcome was possible at the time. I know that I would not have invited him.
I also wondered what happened to the mom's blind date! Rivers and Taylor displayed great maturity when they decided to invite Ethan to the party. I know for myself, and most other kids, probably wouldn't have done the same thing. That was a great moral mini-lesson!
I too was shocked when Rivers mom and Uncle Daddy allowed him to go for a ride with his father after he walked out on them six years ago. Could this man be trusted at this point in the story. I think it would have been more appropriate to have a family gathering and talk about the situation more openly. Afterall Rivers dad was a stranger to him and he was filled with so much anger and resentment at the time. Perhaps his dad could have visited a couple more times before taking Rivers for a ride. I also thought about the part when Rivers dad told him that he had a drug problem. Although Rivers did deserve to be given some sort of explanation as to what had happened so that he could make sense of the past and possibly forgive his father. In a sense I don't think Rivers needed to know the details of his dads drug problem. That's a lot for a fourth grader to take in. Perhaps he could have just said that he was going through a difficult time in his life and needed to take some time to get his life back together.
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