Inappropriate reading book (in my opinion)

adea

Jagraf wrote: »

Give it a year or two and you won't have a clue what she's watching, or reading :eek:

Probably but she will be a teenager then and things will be different! I am not clairvoyant so can't predict what she will be doing .😀
It'll be a shock if she reads anything out of choice rather than having to:rotfl:

Ames

GwylimT wrote: »

Its a fantastic book, my eldest studied it in year six. If the content is a problem then so are Coronation street, Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and most non factual television shows. So I assume those not wanting a child to reas about rape and sex also ensure they don't see things like soaps etc on tv.

Or read the newspaper.

heartbreak_star

It makes me confused and a bit sad when people say they don't read. I just don't understand it, but I think it's because I was actively encouraged to read from a very young age and have always loved it.

I also find it interesting (not just with this thread, in general ) that there is generally more outcry over sex than violence or death - it's something I've noticed with films too. (And regarding the U ratings of some films...Watership Down is a U! Eek!)

Am actually interested in reading this book now. It's probably not the kind of thing I'd have had chosen by my school at age 10/11, but I don't think I would have had it taken off me if I'd chosen it. (I read the Deptford Mice trilogy at 11ish and as a PP has stated, they're actually very dark...)

HBS x

GwylimT

Ames wrote: »

Or read the newspaper.

Newspapers and the news are banned in my sisters house for that reason, bonkers!

Ames

GwylimT wrote: »

Newspapers and the news are banned in my sisters house for that reason, bonkers!

Wow, I'm actually gobsmacked at that.

GwylimT

Ames wrote: »

Wow, I'm actually gobsmacked at that.

Most people are when they meet her, she thinks it will help her children to get into heaven if they aren't subjected to evil, shes a JW, worryingly I'm the normal one in the family...

securityguy

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I- isn't that why Harry Potter was applauded for getting boys to read?

At the time, plenty of schools had problems with religious parents getting up petitions about how Harry Potter was violent, Satanic, anti-Christian and generally bad, and should be banned. A few primaries even went so far as to try to implement this, first in the US, at the fringes in the UK

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/us-parents-want-evil-harry-potter-banned-743511.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/693779.stm

The parents who got up such petitions were idiots, who normally hadn't read the books in question but had been told to protest by their ministers (usually at fringe school hall churches).

lika_86

heartbreak_star wrote: »

It makes me confused and a bit sad when people say they don't read. I just don't understand it, but I think it's because I was actively encouraged to read from a very young age and have always loved it.

I don't think it's all down to nurture though, my sister and I were both raised in the same way, always read to or reading at bedtime, there were always library trips and books around and yet I am a voracious reader and my sister never picks up more than a magazine. She always wants to be on the go and doing something, I can sit quietly for hours. I think personalities are involved as much as anything.

adea

lika_86 wrote: »

I don't think it's all down to nurture though, my sister and I were both raised in the same way, always read to or reading at bedtime, there were always library trips and books around and yet I am a voracious reader and my sister never picks up more than a magazine. She always wants to be on the go and doing something, I can sit quietly for hours. I think personalities are involved as much as anything.

Sounds like my girls. The eldest loves to read and will re-read books frequently, whereas her sister - about whom I started this thread - is a reluctant reader who only reads if she has to. Both her dad and I love reading also and all of us have plenty of books both digital and physical.
Oh and we don't have newspapers in our house purely because we don't buy them, not as a ban.

heartbreak_star

lika_86 wrote: »

I don't think it's all down to nurture though, my sister and I were both raised in the same way, always read to or reading at bedtime, there were always library trips and books around and yet I am a voracious reader and my sister never picks up more than a magazine. She always wants to be on the go and doing something, I can sit quietly for hours. I think personalities are involved as much as anything.

Oh totally. It just weirds me out

HBS x