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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again.  I need to correct myself for confounding modern and real life.  OP wants real world but not too modern.

I honestly got confused because divorce in children's lit was an example of what was desired and addressing divorce seems modern to me.[/quote]

Babysitters' Club was addressing divorce in JFIC in the 80s....

I took OP's use of "modern" to mean kids who behave like brats, that behavior is condoned by the world of the story, and the reader is supposed to think it's funny.[/quote]

That is part of it. Laura and Ramona act in silly and unkind ways, but they know and acknowledge they “shouldn’t” be doing and saying those things. In today’s books, bratty characters and their behaviors are celebrated as individual and creative.

I guess I am looking for books that help in 1) building up a reality and childhood that I had that many seem to think is old fashioned (outside dirty play, no screens or video games, making mistakes, finding your own way to deal with bullies and idiots and 2) negating an emerging reality in which the individual is always right, and an 8 year old (with 8 years experience) is just as much an expert as her 40 year old parent. I’m sorry, but sometimes you just have to listen to an adult, no matter what you want or prefer. But I’m also that parent who cooks one meal and everybody has to eat it. Clean Plate club. No screens. I don’t tolerate rudeness from children, and adults should be respected. I know a lot of people don’t agree. [/quote]

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