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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Incest, rape romance and smut. That’s how my summers were spent 86-90 as a young teen. Anyone else read VC Andrews? My mom bought me the books. What the hell was she thinking? I guess it did get me to read 😂[/quote]

I read all of them. I'm pretty sure my parents never had a single clue who VC Andrews is. My nose was always buried in a book and that was good enough for them.

This isn't directed at you so much, OP, but I don't understand why people don't see that WHAT kids read is so much less important than the fact that they JUST READ. All of this pearl-clutching over the horrors of story material -- which is stuff they already know about anyway! -- totally misses the point. You think the U.S. is so far behind other wealthy countries in academics just because of math or STEM? The reading comes first. Literacy is the foundational building block. Without it, you cannot do the rest.

If your kid is reading and it's not, you know, Penthouse Penpals or something truly horrifically violent (and I mean worse than what they encounter in real life--maybe whatever's the literary equivalent of "Taxi Driver"), just let them read. They'll move on to other stuff. Just like you and I did after reading "Tiger Eyes" and Sweet Valley High and, yes, VC Andrews.
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