Do you really know what your kids are reading?

[Anonymous]

I let my kids read whatever they want.

[Anonymous]

In my middle school in a posh private school in Paris, back in the dinosaur ages, we read books that I remember to this day, that exposed my erstwhile sheltered soul to adult themes I hadn't previously imagined. I had always been a bookworm, but hadn't read *that* type of realist book before and did not particularly enjoy the experience. However it did not give me PTSD, it did not push me to experiment in any way, it did not induce depression or anxiety (that I didn't have before), or turn me away from books. I am still a voracious reader.

My point is that it's all fine.

[Anonymous]

My DS has been a voracious reader since Kindergarten (he is in middle school now). Like music, I would never censor his reading.

[Anonymous]

So... it is not all fine for everyone, but it sounds like that is why there is choice. E.g., my DC was good with Harbor Me but had nightmares for a few weeks after Bud Not Buddy. That was before MS but is a good example. Watership Down: ok. Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime: meltdowns. And no, the meltdowns are NOT character building... they are just hard. Great for most kids to read what they want... also great to have options for others maybe less mature in that way.

[Anonymous]

This is great. Think about what this is teaching you girls (and boys) about relationships. Adolescents do not have fully matured.... anything!

I would never choose to read this crap- ever. Why would I want my child to read it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is great. Think about what this is teaching you girls (and boys) about relationships. Adolescents do not have fully matured.... anything!

I would never choose to read this crap- ever. Why would I want my child to read it.

You do realize Monday’s Not Coming is based on a couple of actual cases. So I’m happy that your kids can just read about these things. Some kids are experiencing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So... it is not all fine for everyone, but it sounds like that is why there is choice. E.g., my DC was good with Harbor Me but had nightmares for a few weeks after Bud Not Buddy. That was before MS but is a good example. Watership Down: ok. Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime: meltdowns. And no, the meltdowns are NOT character building... they are just hard. Great for most kids to read what they want... also great to have options for others maybe less mature in that way.

Sometimes it's not that kids are "less mature" but just that they are "more sensitive". Profoundly gifted children, for example, are usually extremely "mature" but also highly sensitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is great. Think about what this is teaching you girls (and boys) about relationships. Adolescents do not have fully matured.... anything!

I would never choose to read this crap- ever. Why would I want my child to read it.

I agree.

And frankly, given the fact that many kids are being raised in a single parent home (or sometimes not even that) and without proper family values, I think there's real value in doing the total opposite and going back to classical literature with strong family values so that all kids have the chance to understand what a family is supposed to look and feel like, and how relationships are supposed to work. Assigned reading in class is the only chance that a lot of kids in this country would get to have awareness of real family and relationship values. It's appalling that we're taking that away from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where to access the full reading list? I'm thinking of spending the summer reading these controversial books.

Let's have a book club!

Yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
This is great. Think about what this is teaching your girls (and boys) about relationships. Adolescents do not have fully matured.... anything!

I would never choose to read this crap- ever. Why would I want my child to read it.



You do realize Monday’s Not Coming is based on a couple of actual cases. So I’m happy that your kids can just read about these things. Some kids are experiencing them.

So to your thinking this is another example of moving toward equity?!? Some girls are treated like trash so let's let 12 and 13 y.o. kids read about them?

[Anonymous]

Ok, looked up the book and the author—typical woke garbage.

[Anonymous]

OP is a trumper, Q, control freak.

OP Cancel Culture at it's finest our lovely Ultra conservative bible thumper who is dumb as rocks wants books banned.

This book is fine. You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Common sense media lists this book as 14 and up.

Not OP but PP and I don’t care if the book exists just that Kid’s not be made to read it. If they chose to and parents are ok with it, fine. But si would prefer DC don’t read that subject matter until HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where to access the full reading list? I'm thinking of spending the summer reading these controversial books.

Let's have a book club!

There's an entire group of parents in LCPS who are protesting dozens of books, particularly many of those included in the diversity libraries that were purchased a few years back. These two titles just happen to be their latest source of outrage. When the pandemic hit, they switched to being angry that the schools were closed. Now they're back to books and CRT and masks on kids. The groups don't overlap entirely, of course, but you see the same people at every meeting.

How dare some parents take an active interest in their children's moral education. Only the State and its bureaucrats should decide what is appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is great. Think about what this is teaching you girls (and boys) about relationships. Adolescents do not have fully matured.... anything!

I would never choose to read this crap- ever. Why would I want my child to read it.

I agree.

And frankly, given the fact that many kids are being raised in a single parent home (or sometimes not even that) and without proper family values, I think there's real value in doing the total opposite and going back to classical literature with strong family values so that all kids have the chance to understand what a family is supposed to look and feel like, and how relationships are supposed to work. Assigned reading in class is the only chance that a lot of kids in this country would get to have awareness of real family and relationship values. It's appalling that we're taking that away from them.

Classical literature like Hamlet, Heart of Darkness, The Yellow Wallpaper? (All “classics” I read in school for the record.) Definitely some great family and social values to be learned from those…