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wren_in_black 's review for:
Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur
Like all books, I have to think of this from the lens of a teacher.
This book IS NOT how we teach our kids about their self-worth and what sacramental love looks like. I'm terrified that I heard students praising how it helped them and that I talked with them without understanding what's really in this book.
This book takes a hard (and necessary) look at what makes relationships toxic. But in doing so, it meshes abuse in with love and forgets to name which is which in a way that I feel the target age (below 21, as the author was) will understand. Perhaps if the book was divided differently, I would feel differently. I really wish the last section was all there was, or that it was published by itself. I'd put that last section on healing, on realizing that we are enough without someone else, in my library. But everything before the last section is a jumble. The speaker confuses a desire to not be lonely with love, confuses fighting and make-up sex as a true way to love.
We need to have a conversation with our children. If they've read this book, then it could be a start. I've seen students carrying it around and praising this book because it's FAMILIAR to them, if not in the abuse then in the pain of broken relationships.
We need to teach our children, girls and boys, that we don't fight and argue and yell and have make-up sex because we love. We need to teach them what love really looks like and that love and sex are not the same thing and should never be confused as the same thing, which is simply a message that I think this book misses for the most part.
This book IS NOT how we teach our kids about their self-worth and what sacramental love looks like. I'm terrified that I heard students praising how it helped them and that I talked with them without understanding what's really in this book.
This book takes a hard (and necessary) look at what makes relationships toxic. But in doing so, it meshes abuse in with love and forgets to name which is which in a way that I feel the target age (below 21, as the author was) will understand. Perhaps if the book was divided differently, I would feel differently. I really wish the last section was all there was, or that it was published by itself. I'd put that last section on healing, on realizing that we are enough without someone else, in my library. But everything before the last section is a jumble. The speaker confuses a desire to not be lonely with love, confuses fighting and make-up sex as a true way to love.
We need to have a conversation with our children. If they've read this book, then it could be a start. I've seen students carrying it around and praising this book because it's FAMILIAR to them, if not in the abuse then in the pain of broken relationships.
We need to teach our children, girls and boys, that we don't fight and argue and yell and have make-up sex because we love. We need to teach them what love really looks like and that love and sex are not the same thing and should never be confused as the same thing, which is simply a message that I think this book misses for the most part.