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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I was at the library the other day and a girl who looked about 11 years old came in with a woman who was presumably her mom. She picked out a book for school her and brought it to her mom and her mom kept insisting the book is inappropriate and wouldn't let her check out the book. Just why. What the fuсk was she afraid of her kid reading? It's not like she was checking out a porn magazine.[/quote]

For me: I would be steering my young kids away from books that depict coercive or abusive relationships as desirable or positive. There's a lot of romantasy that I don't want my kids to read until they're a little older and have developed more of a filter. Coercive/possessive behavior is not romantic, even though it can be fun to read about for older teens and adults who KNOW it would be a huge red flag in read life.

For violence, there are some things you can't unsee (mentally). My fifth grader is both very interested in history and pretty sensitive, and there are certain books about the Holocaust that I've told him I would like him to hold off on for a few more years and I've explained why. There is a lot of good age-appropriate content available-- he doesn't need to be reading Elie Wiesel's book Night or visiting the Holocaust Museum's adult exhibit yet (we're talking about visiting their excellent children's exhibit "Daniel's Story" this summer.)

At the same time, I'd be okay with him reading The Hunger Games if he wanted to, although we'd discuss it together.

A lot of things are kid and situation-dependent. [/quote]

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