Anonymous
04/19/2026 19:13
Subject: Re:Dork Diaries causing these issues?
Anonymous wrote:Why do these authors produce this crap!?
They are highly entertaining to kids and seem more realistic vs pedantic.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 19:09
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
Anonymous wrote:My 10-year-old is obsessed with the dork diaries book series, and I very naïvely thought it was appropriate material just based on the look of the covers. I’ve noticed a dramatic change in her behavior like being mean to her brother and using rude language. I chalked it up to her preteen early puberty stage, but I took a look at the latest book she was reading and now I see she’s getting it from this book series! She’s a voracious reader and she will have a meltdown if she cannot read these books anymore. How is the best way to handle? Ban the books entirely or make her realize how shallow and inappropriate the content is but let her read them? Anyone else who has dealt with this specific issue (censoring what your child reads), please help me out here! She already has very limited screen time and access to pop culture, doesn’t have a phone, so reading is really her daily pleasure.
My rule is that kids can read anything as long as they are willing to read aloud to me, discuss anything and everything from the book with me, and can distinguish reality vs fiction (including what is acceptable in the book vs our house). I would mark certain passages to have her read aloud to me, talk to her about what the passages mean for the plot, then discuss whether the behavior is acceptable for her. I would then warn her that the behavior I had been seeing was problematic, and while I abhor censoring, I *will* do what is necessary to make sure that kids only read what they are mature enough to understand and behave appropriately.
Anonymous
04/19/2026 07:03
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
Anonymous wrote:It happened to one of my kids, not that series but another one. Written by some depraved person, no doubt.
I banned the book series until I saw a change in behavior.
Are you keeping the title secret so that we all have to fall into the same trap?
Anonymous
04/18/2026 19:23
Subject: Re:Dork Diaries causing these issues?
It wasn’t until DS was 9 that he could spend hours reading junkier books and not copying the language and attitudes in real life. But he may be a late bloomer.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 12:34
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
It happened to one of my kids, not that series but another one. Written by some depraved person, no doubt.
I banned the book series until I saw a change in behavior.
I banned the book series until I saw a change in behavior.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 12:32
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
I hate Nikki I think her habit of saying omg omg omg omg I getting on my nerves and it's a very bad influence
People can read dork diaries at any age as long as they don't get influenced by Nikki Maxwell cuz she is not a very good
Role model.
People can read dork diaries at any age as long as they don't get influenced by Nikki Maxwell cuz she is not a very good
Role model.
Anonymous
08/16/2025 16:32
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
I’m not a fan of censorship, but… ok I admit there’s a lot of trash. Consuming trash for hours and hours is bad. My kid is very impressionable and reads for hours. If what he is reading is Wimpy Kid, he slips in sassy talk and rudeness without always knowing something is inappropriate. If he reads Harry Potter for an extensive time, he starts adding in Hagrid’s vernacular along with random British slang.
When I get tired of sass and just dumb stuff, I put Wimpy Kid on the high shelf. He understands following rules and not mimicking behaviors and does well not picking up on problematic behaviors in person (playground, school), but books seem to be different.
When I get tired of sass and just dumb stuff, I put Wimpy Kid on the high shelf. He understands following rules and not mimicking behaviors and does well not picking up on problematic behaviors in person (playground, school), but books seem to be different.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 09:52
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
I can’t stand Junie B. Jones!!!!!!
Anonymous
08/15/2025 09:45
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
Anonymous wrote:She might be getting specific wording or phrases from the books, but the attitude is coming from her age and her friends. Banning the books is not going to stop it. It is absolutely worth discussion/consequences, and those consequences can include losing those books if that’s what she cares about.
-Mother of a ten year old girl who doesn’t read Dork diaries and still figures out how to be mean to her brother and rude to me. See also, rock music doesn’t make you use drugs and playing D&D doesn’t turn you into a satan worshipping murderer.
+1
Anonymous
08/12/2025 23:08
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
The best thing I did this summer was get my 4th grader into Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Tuck Everlasting, Secret Garden and Charlotte’s Web. She absolutely loves them!! Helen Keller is next and her reward is the movie when she is done reading. I love Sherlock Holmes so we read together most evenings.
Anonymous
08/12/2025 19:17
Subject: Re:Dork Diaries causing these issues?
I hate dork diaries. The storyline is bad. It’s probably just her hormones and the book combined. You really shouldn’t be worrying too much unless she starts calling herself Nikki or even crying about not being a character from these books. Ban them if she obsesses over Mackenzie hollister.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 09:52
Subject: Dork Diaries causing these issues?
Anonymous wrote:Book censorship is never the answer. Ever.
Also, Dork Diaries rules!
+1 My 8 year old loves them. She's super sweet and kind, and the book is helping her deal with some self-appointed popular girls who are emerging in her class. She started writing songs and wants to form a band. Good influence.