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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Judy Blume: Parents worry too much about what children read
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10868544/Judy-Blume-Parents-worry-too-much-about-what-children-read.html

I’m team Judy but you do you![/quote]

I agree that problematic material goes over kids' heads if they're not ready for it.  I read Jean Auel in grade school and didn't really think anything of some of the content at the time.

Santa Claus is not above kids' heads, though.  He is right at the level of 4, 6, 8 year olds.  [/quote]

From the article:
"A lot of people will want to control everything in their children's lives, or everything in other people's children's lives.”

[b]I really feel like other people are trying to control my kids with respect to Santa - that I really have to keep up a lie for other people.[/b] [/quote]

I'm sorry that a PSA about a book makes you feel so attacked.  [/quote]

I think I get what you're saying, PP. A Jewish friend of mine told me that when he was a kid, his mom got an upset call from the kindergarten teacher because he had told some kids at school that Santa wasn't real. His teacher was hoping his mother would get him to stop talking. I think this was ridiculous. Even though we do Santa in our family, I realize I have no right to control what other kids and people say about Santa. Getting seeds of doubt planted about Santa, even at a young age, is a normal part of childhood.

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It apparently never occurred to that Jewish friend that she would have gotten the same phone call from the kindergarten teacher about her kid telling others that Santa wasn't real even if he were not Jewish.  [/quote]

And it never occurred to the teacher that it wasn't her place to help reinforce a religious holiday?[/quote]

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