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I know it's not a novel. I realize it's autobiographical. I know she has grit and determination. I know she won the nobel prize.

My point is that a child reading about a child being shot in the face and  left to die is disturbing. I don't think an 11 year old, who is learning about the world, should think about something like that. They have plenty to learn, and plenty of time to learn it.

[b]When I was a kid, we didn't know about things like that at 11.[/b] [b]We also didn't have suicide and depression rampant in high school.[/b] Protecting your children's emotional and psychological well being is part of being a good parent.[/quote]

Who's "we"? I did. So did lots of other 11-year-olds, most notably the ones who live where things like that happen.

You know what I didn't know about at 11? Active-shooter drills in schools.

(It's not autobiographical. It's an autobiography.)[/quote]

+1.  Not to mention, PP's implied link between reading of autobiographies and increased mental illness rates makes no sense and is unsupported.[/quote]

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