Dork Diaries causing these issues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Book censorship is never the answer. Ever.

Also, Dork Diaries rules!

+1 My 8 year old loves them. She's super sweet and kind, and the book is helping her deal with some self-appointed popular girls who are emerging in her class. She started writing songs and wants to form a band. Good influence.

[Anonymous]

I hate dork diaries. The storyline is bad. It’s probably just her hormones and the book combined. You really shouldn’t be worrying too much unless she starts calling herself Nikki or even crying about not being a character from these books. Ban them if she obsesses over Mackenzie hollister.

[Anonymous]

The best thing I did this summer was get my 4th grader into Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Tuck Everlasting, Secret Garden and Charlotte’s Web. She absolutely loves them!! Helen Keller is next and her reward is the movie when she is done reading. I love Sherlock Holmes so we read together most evenings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She might be getting specific wording or phrases from the books, but the attitude is coming from her age and her friends. Banning the books is not going to stop it. It is absolutely worth discussion/consequences, and those consequences can include losing those books if that’s what she cares about.

-Mother of a ten year old girl who doesn’t read Dork diaries and still figures out how to be mean to her brother and rude to me. See also, rock music doesn’t make you use drugs and playing D&D doesn’t turn you into a satan worshipping murderer.

+1

[Anonymous]

I can’t stand Junie B. Jones!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

I’m not a fan of censorship, but… ok I admit there’s a lot of trash. Consuming trash for hours and hours is bad. My kid is very impressionable and reads for hours. If what he is reading is Wimpy Kid, he slips in sassy talk and rudeness without always knowing something is inappropriate. If he reads Harry Potter for an extensive time, he starts adding in Hagrid’s vernacular along with random British slang.

When I get tired of sass and just dumb stuff, I put Wimpy Kid on the high shelf. He understands following rules and not mimicking behaviors and does well not picking up on problematic behaviors in person (playground, school), but books seem to be different.