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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For parents who say it's okay to expose your kids to these types of books at an early age, I don't know how much you have to deal with counselor issues at school.  We're friends with a guidance counselor and she tells me it's amazing how kids pick up behavior at school and can be really mean to each other.  Your angels might not be showing it at home, but their interactions and language with others might not be ideal in a school environment.  [/quote]

Oh, FFS. Kids are not being mean to each other because of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.[/quote]

I don't know.  Advertising companies spend millions on ads because looking at them for just a few seconds influences the purchases that adults make.  It seems reasonable to think that a child's behavior might be influenced after reading something for hours.  [/quote]

Well, I do know. Why are you comparing books to advertising? They are not the same.

Elementary kids are influenced by media that they watch, older siblings and friends, other family members. If they have crappy behavior, look to these sources first. Books like Wimpy Kid?  not so much. I have an 8 year old and am shocked by the stuff his friends talk about - watching "It" and other R movies, playing online video games where people trash talk one another, older siblings using foul language ("I'm going to f-k you up you piece of sh-t"), wildly inappropriate You Tube videos of Minecraft characters doing very adult things like spying on naked women through a window. And this is all at an affluent public school. You and OP are living in a fantasy world if you think that the mild humor in Wimpy Kid is messing up behavior.[/quote]

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