[LeifCarrotson]

My favorite pages were when the baby turned to a bird to fly away, and the parent became the tree the bird comes home to, and when the baby became a sailboat, and the parent became the wind that blows the boat where it needs to go. Not violent at all!

[divbzero]

When you describe that way it actually echoes actual parenting — trying to encourage autonomy while still guiding the child.