Bunny trails

Lately, our children have been viewing the following entertainment/ educational programming: Berenstain Bears, Dora the Explorer, Word World, Super Why, Curious George, the Backyardigans, a Scholastics series based on popular children’s books, and Dragon Tales. I try to watch some of it so as to keep up with some of their conversations. For example, one of the Backyardigan episodes involves a race in which the winner earns a gold medal, and Austin won by never giving up and being well prepared. My children have referenced this many times in conversation, usually not directly, so it was helpful for me to have seen that episode.

For all that, I have no idea where Genevieve's terminology for "bunny trails" comes from. As in, we'll be driving down a street in our gas sucking mini van and she'll declare: "This road is a bunny trail."

She's been a little hard to pin down as to the specific attributes of said "bunny trail," and she denies knowledge of any specific source of the term. Who told her it was a bunny trail? How does she know?

"It just is."

Bunny trails tend to be side streets, more likely one without curbing. They aren't busy roads, and once she said, "You can see the bunny tracks along the road." That is not, however, a consistent attribute. The street we live on is generally not a bunny trail (we do have curb and gutter). And the importance of the designation? Beats me. It's simply important enough for her to talk about.