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[quote=Anonymous]Would she let you read to her? I read to my 8th grade daughter while she “does her skincare routine”. This gets her excited enough about the book that she will read some of the book without me on the nights I’m not available. This also allows her to ask me questions about some of the vocabulary.

She also asks me questions about vocabulary from TV shows. Just last night she came and asked me what “conundrum” meant and was excited that she had basically already figured it out from context clues. I confirmed what she thought. She was watching Gilmore Girls.

My kid likes murder mysteries. We read Murder on the Orient Express. And now we are reading a very light book from the Vacation Mysteries Series. I am comfortable letting her read anything other than perhaps some sort of hard core pornographic thing (which is not something she ever has wanted to read). I am fine reading a book to her with curse words and that is clear unmarried people are having sex. I am fine with LGBTQ content. Reading this stuff to her allows me to also interject with some of my own values. We can both generally align on when a character is making a very bad choice. It allows us to talk about stuff without it being personal to her.[/quote]

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