Posted on 12/08/2013 6:53:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Food....for thought!
The Red Pony and Island of the Blue Dolphins were two of my favorites.
Same and same. My opinion is wrong as well then.
garbage in, garbage out ain’t just a river in China
Oh no, Twilight is truly terrible and girls love it. It’s got pedophilia, and all kinds of abusive relationships portrayed as “true love”.
My personal favorite was the girl who, when she tried to dump her boyfriend, he freaked out and maimed her, but she decided to stay with him, because he must really love her if losing her would make him go crazy like that.
The only one I’ve heard of was the “Series of Unfortunate Events” that my kids read and liked.
And ‘ya know what. Sometimes Evil does win. (Here on earth anyways).
Censorship of books is wrong, even for kids.Respectfully, no. You are wrong. It is essential for kids. It defines responsible parenting.
When one of my children were in middle school she was assigned a book to read that I didn’t approve of. I talked to her teacher and she let her read another book. It was no big deal.
My daughter read that as an assignment in school. In fact I thought a lot of the books she was given in school were very morbid. But we always discussed them at length. I’m pretty sure you are right and that was one of the many that turned me off.
My kid really hates to read, she never reads for pleasure. It’s a shame, she takes after her father. But she was always excellent at literary analysis, I was very impressed with some papers she wrote.
I love to read, but I never get much about the ‘theme’ or foreshadowing or anything like that.
They try to slip in crypto-marxist messages into children’s books. It’s a political tactic. Began a looooong time ago. Pullman is a real bitter, twisted, old hack.
As long and swampy as they are for young readers, I do recommend Tolkien’s books. Wonderful themes.
You do have to be careful what you let children read. And no, its not ‘censorship’. Children are under the stewardship of their parents. I would not let my child read ‘Mein Kampf’, and I apply the same principle to other books with questionable, brainwashing content.
All media forms are there to be analyzed by developed minds and discerning eyes. We censor things from children all the time, pornography being the most prominent example. It’s your duty as a parent to bring your child up free from diabolical influences.
Snap! I also had to read Native Son, and we had a class discussion on it. To my surprise, many people saw right through it and condemned the main character, much to what I think was the chagrin of our teacher, recognizing that no conditions or treatment can be used to justify evil. Evil is evil.
M4L
Twilight was once described to me in very accurate terms.
“A young woman’s choice between necrophilia and bestiality”
There are a LOT of rehashes of the same story with subliminal imagery thrown in. I’d also try to roll back some of this anthropomorphizing garbage kids have become accustomed to since Bambi. I have met some young girls and even boys who care more about the rights of animals than the rights of people.
the real Karana died shortly after being rescued
I always tell my kids that animals would eat them if they could.
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