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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For parents who say it's okay to expose your kids to these types of books at an early age, I don't know how much you have to deal with counselor issues at school.  We're friends with a guidance counselor and she tells me it's amazing how kids pick up behavior at school and can be really mean to each other.  Your angels might not be showing it at home, but their interactions and language with others might not be ideal in a school environment.  [/quote]

I’m one of the PPs above who said I don’t censor what my kids read - in part because I want to encourage independent thinking. And fwiw yes, I did recently get a very nice write up from the school about my kid’s nice personality and behavior at school - a kid who I let read these books.  I know this doesn’t need to be said but nevertheless i am saying it ;) [/quote]

My DS (age 10, 5th grade) says one of his classmates is reading Stephen King's "It".

I would not let him read that if he wanted to. Totally inappropriate. As well as not being desirable for him to read it, it is not [i]necessary [/i]for him to read it in order to develop "independent thinking".[/quote]

I would probably allow it. I read Anne Rice’s Lestat books in 5th grade with a friend. We later took AP English together. She’s an English teacher and I’m a lawyer now. [/quote]

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