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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I don't think you can avoid hard subjects, though, like bigotry toward and hatred of LGBT people.  I never thought I would be telling a second grader or a third grader about how women used to be second class citizens, but I have.  Or about racism.  I had totally forgotten that The Secret Garden would raise race issues and class issues until we started reading it.  What are you going to do?  Just read a long like the Mistress Maryis just fine for slapping her Ayah and for her views on the "natives" in India?

That doesn't mean you have to go into everything, of course.  But I don't think you can avoid this stuff.  I didn't go into how people in DH's family way back owned slaves; we'll get there eventually.  I can't pretend, though, that the world is and always has been a perfect place.  Examples of bad behavior towards other humans abound; all you have to do is turn on the news.  Oh, and the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11?  That was a fun one, but I didn't shy away from it.[/quote]

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