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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, give your kid a copy of AARP Magazine. It is recommended for ages 55 and up, so will be a stretch challenge for your genius child. [/quote]

Funniest post ive read here in a while.

Very sad to see tiger parenting reach the level where one would brag about their elementary school child reading Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, and other books with dark depressing themes. Oh but the books have big words! If your child is verbally gifted, let them do the NY Times crossword or read Anne of Green Gables. [/quote]

+1 After you get past a certain reading level, it's far more important to think about themes and interest:  Wind in the Willows and Anne of Green Gables both have higher lexile levels than Crime and Punishment, but I'd rather have my kids read the former at a young age than the latter.  Watership Down and the Plague are both about the same, but warring clans of rabbits are just more appropriate for most 12 year olds than French existentialism.

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