Books You Loved as a Child But Don't Want for Your Kids

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. Books are about creativity and imagination - there's nothing wrong with learning about the evolution of child development by teaching a 3 yr old that in the olden days it was common to spank children but now we know how it can affect them.

Sorry, not appropriate for the age this was written for. I can discuss the evolution when she is older. We won’t be reading this at bedtime for awhile.

Eh, you do whatever works for you. Our kids will both end of fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Yea, I actually got a bunch of my old childrens books and now read them to my son who is 3.5. Ping was one, I remember loving it, but it is pretty messed up! He still asks for it sometimes, but I try to keep it out of sight, out of mind.

I remember loving Ping. Read it to my 4 year old and he didn't even pick up on the hitting stuff. Which, to be honest, doesn't bother me (to read about -- I don't do it).

However, Riki Tiki Tembo is a hard no. DH brought it home from the library because it was one of his favorites as a child. I'd never read it. That one has definitely not aged well. Predictably, DS loved it. We read it a number of times since he liked it so much and then when it came due from the library, we returned it and told him the library only lets us have a book once. "Sorry!"

I remember absolutely loving The Trumpet of the Swan but I think I was a bit older when I read it, maybe 6 or 7, so I haven't checked it out for my kids yet ...

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Anonymous wrote:Little Black Sambo. As a kid I just loved the tigers wearing clothes and turning into butter, but OMG even the title is racist.

I LOVED that book! Totally had forgotten about it.

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Love you forever. It’s creeptastic.

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Anonymous wrote:Yea, I actually got a bunch of my old childrens books and now read them to my son who is 3.5. Ping was one, I remember loving it, but it is pretty messed up! He still asks for it sometimes, but I try to keep it out of sight, out of mind.

I remember loving Ping. Read it to my 4 year old and he didn't even pick up on the hitting stuff. Which, to be honest, doesn't bother me (to read about -- I don't do it).

However, Riki Tiki Tembo is a hard no. DH brought it home from the library because it was one of his favorites as a child. I'd never read it. That one has definitely not aged well. Predictably, DS loved it. We read it a number of times since he liked it so much and then when it came due from the library, we returned it and told him the library only lets us have a book once. "Sorry!"

I remember absolutely loving The Trumpet of the Swan but I think I was a bit older when I read it, maybe 6 or 7, so I haven't checked it out for my kids yet ...

Wait, what's wrong with the Trumpet of the Swan. I loved it too, and I got it for my DD. I didn't see anything wrong with the content, but I did notice how writing in kids' books has changed. It was really slow with a lot of detail. I'd like if my kid read it but I'm waiting because she doesn't have the patience for it, even though she can read at that level.

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Anonymous wrote:Little Black Sambo. As a kid I just loved the tigers wearing clothes and turning into butter, but OMG even the title is racist.

I was just going to post this! I loved the book, OMG...

The title got changed at some point to "The Boy and the Tigers." The boy has a different name, too. It's one of several stories included in a book someone gave to my DS. We were reading it and I was thinking, wait...I know this story...

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I hate that book about the fish that has to give away all his pretty scales or he won't have any friends.

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Doesn't rise to the level of banning it, but I hate the part in Bearenstain Bears No Girls Allowed were Mama bear tells Papa bear "how would you feel if a little cub beat you all the time? Especially a girl cub!". We just don't read the "especially a girl cub" when we read it to DS. I LOVED that book as a kid, but there is definitely a subtext that getting beat by a girl is somehow worse than losing to a boy.

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The original Curious George- sister gave this to DS and I was shocked reading it after all these years. all about stealing a monkey from the jungle and putting him in a zoo!

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of stuff from Rudyard Kipling is racist and imperialist.

books, for kids? Like what?

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Anonymous wrote:Tikki tikki Tembo. Totally racist

I haven’t read this since I was a kid- what is wrong with it?

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't rise to the level of banning it, but I hate the part in Bearenstain Bears No Girls Allowed were Mama bear tells Papa bear "how would you feel if a little cub beat you all the time? Especially a girl cub!". We just don't read the "especially a girl cub" when we read it to DS. I LOVED that book as a kid, but there is definitely a subtext that getting beat by a girl is somehow worse than losing to a boy.

Same here! We have that book. We were given a lot of Berenstain Bears books, and I secretly hate them, though DC loves them. They're so preachy and have really outdated gender roles. Papa is like this clueless, do nothing around the house dad, while Mama knows everything and does everything.

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Anonymous wrote:The original Curious George- sister gave this to DS and I was shocked reading it after all these years. all about stealing a monkey from the jungle and putting him in a zoo!

OMG we took this out from the library and holy hell! George smokes a cigar!

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Green Eggs and Ham! Someone need's to teach Sam I Am about CONSENT. It is 2018, Sam! #TimesUP

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Anonymous wrote:Green Eggs and Ham! Someone need's to teach Sam I Am about CONSENT. It is 2018, Sam! #TimesUP

Need's? What? I meant needs.