If your kids will be negatively affected by exposure to bad grammar you are going to have to severely limit the literature they encounter.

Why do parents persist in thinking their children are so weak in mind and body?

My PK3er likes the Junie B books and I hate to censor her reading choices, so I read them with her at bedtime. But I hate the cutesy grammar because she doesn’t always know what’s correct v wrong and parrots everything she reads/hears... so I am essentially teaching her incorrect grammar. I find it frustrating.

Also you can not compare kids learning bad behavior from tv and from reading. I cannot believe PP tried to us that as an argument.

My 1st grade daughter finds these books very funny and they're the perfect reading level for her. I ask her to tell me when Junie says grammatically incorrect things or could improve her behavior, so use it as a teaching tool in that sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten and maybe 1st. I think the books are hilarious.

It’s funny how parents here avoid them, but most kids these days truly act like that due to parents being “friendly” with their kids.

The whole point is to read them and realize it is okay (and even funny) to have the thoughts, but never right to say them out loud or do them. It is learning social etiquette thru the books. Julie always gets in trouble for acting on her selfish thoughts. We read her narrative thoughts and agree with some of them, but cringe as she gets in trouble.

You moms are so coddling to never show your kids things like this. Geez.

I think you may be right, IF you are reading them together. If a child starts reading them independently, they probably aren’t taking away the right lessons. Research on the way kids absorb messages from TV suggests this is the case.

The right lesson is: reading is fun.

+1 Junie B was always hilarious to me and my kids because she was so outrageous. Even her bad grammar was funny-my kid had fun pointing our her mistakes. Some of you people need to lighten up.

Agree

Oh my goodness! PP here. I have no idea what happened with that post, but I hope you can sort it out and will give Junie B. a chance. This is why I hate posting on my phone.

I am a grammar stickler, and I expect good behavior from my kids, so I was shocked when my oldest son’s kindergarten teacher read a few Junie B. books aloud during the school year. I was so turned off. However, I did observe her reading a Junie B. book one day and noticed that she laughed at the grammar and rolled her eyes at the occasional use of dumb. The kids ate it up. So I started reading Junie B. to my kids.

My oldest is almost 22 and my youngest is 10. A few in the middle. In the course of all these years I have pretty much been reading Junie B. aloud consistently. They are among my favorite children’s books, and this is what I encourage you to do:

Read the books aloud to your kids. You can even talk about the grammar and the behavior, but the kids generally figure it out on their own. If you read the kindergarten series from the first to last book, you will notice a sweet transition of the characters. The ending of the last book, Graduation Girl, is so sweet that it still makes me tear up every time I read it aloud. If you have not read all the books in the series in order, you won’t really get it.

The stand-out of the first grade books would be “Jingle Bells Batman Smells.” It’s important toI am a grammar stickler, and I expect good behavior from my kids, so I was shocked when my oldest son’s kindergarten teacher read a few Junie B. books aloud during the school year. I was so turned off. However, I did observe her reading a Junie B. book one day and noticed that she laughed at the grammar and rolled her eyes at the occasional use of dumb. The kids ate it up. So I started reading Junie B. to my kids. My oldest is almost 22 and my youngest is 10. A few in the middle. In the course of all these years I have pretty much been reading Junie B. aloud consistently. They are among my favorite children’s books, and this is what I encourage you to do:

Read the books aloud to your kids. You can even talk about the grammar and the behavior, but the kids generally figure it out on their own. If you read the kindergarten series from the first to last book, you will notice a sweet transition of the characters. The ending of the last book, Graduation Girl, is so sweet that it still makes me tear up every time I read it aloud. If you have not read all the books in the series in order, you won’t really get it.

The stand-out of the first grade books would be “Jingle Bells Batman Smells.” It’s important to read the books in order. Jingle Bells is one of my favorite children’s holiday books ever, but having context helps a lot.

Barbara Parks was an incredible author who died too young. Her last Junie B. book, turkeys we have loved and eaten, was inserted into the series before her death. In that book, she brings back some of the characters we have not seen in first grade, including “Principal.” Yes, I tear up at that too. I assume the author knew she was dying. I felt as though she was going to end the first grade series with having Junie B. move away and all the emotions that go with that. Sadly, Parks died before the book could be written.

It’s a series worth reading aloud to your kids. There is more there than meets the eye.

2nd in our house. But those and the Rainbow Magic Fairy books are ones my kid has to read on her own, because I can't stand them!

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Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten and maybe 1st. I think the books are hilarious.

It’s funny how parents here avoid them, but most kids these days truly act like that due to parents being “friendly” with their kids.

The whole point is to read them and realize it is okay (and even funny) to have the thoughts, but never right to say them out loud or do them. It is learning social etiquette thru the books. Julie always gets in trouble for acting on her selfish thoughts. We read her narrative thoughts and agree with some of them, but cringe as she gets in trouble.

You moms are so coddling to never show your kids things like this. Geez.

I think you may be right, IF you are reading them together. If a child starts reading them independently, they probably aren’t taking away the right lessons. Research on the way kids absorb messages from TV suggests this is the case.

The right lesson is: reading is fun.

+1 Junie B was always hilarious to me and my kids because she was so outrageous. Even her bad grammar was funny-my kid had fun pointing our her mistakes. Some of you people need to lighten up.

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Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten and maybe 1st. I think the books are hilarious.

It’s funny how parents here avoid them, but most kids these days truly act like that due to parents being “friendly” with their kids.

The whole point is to read them and realize it is okay (and even funny) to have the thoughts, but never right to say them out loud or do them. It is learning social etiquette thru the books. Julie always gets in trouble for acting on her selfish thoughts. We read her narrative thoughts and agree with some of them, but cringe as she gets in trouble.

You moms are so coddling to never show your kids things like this. Geez.

I think you may be right, IF you are reading them together. If a child starts reading them independently, they probably aren’t taking away the right lessons. Research on the way kids absorb messages from TV suggests this is the case.

Oh please. Are you one of those moms? Stop now or your kids will never had a thought of their own.

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean your kids are reading these books in K? Or you are reading them to your kids. No way my K can read Magic Tree house or Junie B Jones.

My child read them on her own. Those and Nate the Great. I taught her to read early though.

Anonymous wrote:FTR... I truly feel sorry for your kids if you are censoring their leisure reading this early on. Way to give them a complex.

I can understand, having them read a certain book every few Junie B books to mix it up or to make yourself feel better. But BANNING age appropriate books? Hmmm sounds like something we’ve seen before...

As I recall, there are negative reviews of Ivy + Bean on Amazon, on grounds that Ivy and Bean misbehave constantly but don't get punished. We all loved Ivy + Bean, and my kids haven't knocked over a bank yet, but who knows.

FTR... I truly feel sorry for your kids if you are censoring their leisure reading this early on. Way to give them a complex.

I can understand, having them read a certain book every few Junie B books to mix it up or to make yourself feel better. But BANNING age appropriate books? Hmmm sounds like something we’ve seen before...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten and maybe 1st. I think the books are hilarious.

It’s funny how parents here avoid them, but most kids these days truly act like that due to parents being “friendly” with their kids.

The whole point is to read them and realize it is okay (and even funny) to have the thoughts, but never right to say them out loud or do them. It is learning social etiquette thru the books. Julie always gets in trouble for acting on her selfish thoughts. We read her narrative thoughts and agree with some of them, but cringe as she gets in trouble.

You moms are so coddling to never show your kids things like this. Geez.

I think you may be right, IF you are reading them together. If a child starts reading them independently, they probably aren’t taking away the right lessons. Research on the way kids absorb messages from TV suggests this is the case.

The right lesson is: reading is fun.

Anonymous wrote:Kindergarten and maybe 1st. I think the books are hilarious.

It’s funny how parents here avoid them, but most kids these days truly act like that due to parents being “friendly” with their kids.

The whole point is to read them and realize it is okay (and even funny) to have the thoughts, but never right to say them out loud or do them. It is learning social etiquette thru the books. Julie always gets in trouble for acting on her selfish thoughts. We read her narrative thoughts and agree with some of them, but cringe as she gets in trouble.

You moms are so coddling to never show your kids things like this. Geez.

I think you may be right, IF you are reading them together. If a child starts reading them independently, they probably aren’t taking away the right lessons. Research on the way kids absorb messages from TV suggests this is the case.