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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL at the nitwits all spun up about the "racism" in Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie.[/quote]

+1000.

And I don't understand why, if you loved a particular book as a child and feel like you still turned out okay, why you would think your kid couldn't handle the same thing?[/quote]

What a silly response.  Racism is embedded in all sorts of places and ideas from books get planted in our minds and have a big impact on our culture.  It doesn't mean we can't read imperfect books but just that we need to discuss the problems in them and explain the context to our kids.

-a dad who read the Little House Books as a kid with his mother who grew up on a farm 100 miles from where Laura Ingalls Wilder spent the majority of her childhood and who has read the books with his own kids[/quote]

How many people do you think really discuss these issues with their ES age kids?

As a MS teacher, I can tell you very few. As a result, when we show them a political cartoon from the mid-1800s and the child makes a comment that offends half the class, the parents tell us that they thought the child wasn’t ready yet to learn about racism. But they thought it was okay to repeatedly read a book that referred to people as darkies? [/quote]

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