Re: Holocaust
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In a message dated 7/12/99 6:16:57 PM !!!First Boot!!!, KSeebose@...
writes:
<< Perhaps I should have stated that I had NO intention of bringing my
daughter
to something like the holocaust museum,etc... Just to bring it up in the
same
respect that we talk about other awful issues-- slavery, etc. She's well
aware of many stories of slavery, as we in the "deep South"... I had no
intention of showing her pictures, making her watch Schindler's list,
reading
Anne Frank or anything else....
I should have clarified this... I'm sorry...
Kathie
are a lot of "lite" versions. Definitely needs kid gloves but I wouldn't
want to sugar coat anything either.
Nance
writes:
<< Perhaps I should have stated that I had NO intention of bringing my
daughter
to something like the holocaust museum,etc... Just to bring it up in the
same
respect that we talk about other awful issues-- slavery, etc. She's well
aware of many stories of slavery, as we in the "deep South"... I had no
intention of showing her pictures, making her watch Schindler's list,
reading
Anne Frank or anything else....
I should have clarified this... I'm sorry...
Kathie
>>OK, what were you planning? This is a tough issue and I can't imagine there
are a lot of "lite" versions. Definitely needs kid gloves but I wouldn't
want to sugar coat anything either.
Nance
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In a message dated 7/12/99 2:06:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mseger@... writes:
<<
I honestly think a 7 yo is too young to study the Holocaust. I'm not saying
it shouldn't be mentioned but I think anything much more than that needs to
wait. It's just too horrific. What you're interpreting as indifference from
your child may be a self-protective mechanism that IMO is entirely
justified.
My kids and I got into this around age 10, very carefully. I believe the
Holocaust museum in Washington doesn't recommend visits from people
startling much younger than 12 and that sounds right to me.
Holocaust is the Diary of Anne Frank. It doesn't have a great deal of truly
horrific things in it..."just" depictions of prejudice and abuse but it also
is about the awakening of a teenage girl which, I think, is more appropriate
for a child of about 12. Unless you want to cover the Holocaust again at a
later age, I'd wait. Do you truly want to expose your child to something
like "Schindler's List" at age 7?
Even adults have had turned stomachs about this.
By the way, I think I understand the impulse to get your child to learn about
something important to you. I asked my daughter to read Little Women when
she was about 9, I think. I now think that if we had waited until she was
about 12 or 13, she would have liked it better and understood it better.
It's going to be difficult to get her to review it now that she's older...in
fact, I doubt I'll try too hard.
Good luck on whatever you decide.
Cynthia
mseger@... writes:
<<
I honestly think a 7 yo is too young to study the Holocaust. I'm not saying
it shouldn't be mentioned but I think anything much more than that needs to
wait. It's just too horrific. What you're interpreting as indifference from
your child may be a self-protective mechanism that IMO is entirely
justified.
My kids and I got into this around age 10, very carefully. I believe the
Holocaust museum in Washington doesn't recommend visits from people
startling much younger than 12 and that sounds right to me.
>>I agree and might further add that one of the best resources for study of the
Holocaust is the Diary of Anne Frank. It doesn't have a great deal of truly
horrific things in it..."just" depictions of prejudice and abuse but it also
is about the awakening of a teenage girl which, I think, is more appropriate
for a child of about 12. Unless you want to cover the Holocaust again at a
later age, I'd wait. Do you truly want to expose your child to something
like "Schindler's List" at age 7?
Even adults have had turned stomachs about this.
By the way, I think I understand the impulse to get your child to learn about
something important to you. I asked my daughter to read Little Women when
she was about 9, I think. I now think that if we had waited until she was
about 12 or 13, she would have liked it better and understood it better.
It's going to be difficult to get her to review it now that she's older...in
fact, I doubt I'll try too hard.
Good luck on whatever you decide.
Cynthia
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In a message dated 7/12/99 2:06:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mseger@... writes:
<<
I honestly think a 7 yo is too young to study the Holocaust. I'm not saying
it shouldn't be mentioned but I think anything much more than that needs to
wait. It's just too horrific. What you're interpreting as indifference from
your child may be a self-protective mechanism that IMO is entirely
justified.
My kids and I got into this around age 10, very carefully. I believe the
Holocaust museum in Washington doesn't recommend visits from people
startling much younger than 12 and that sounds right to me.
Holocaust is the Diary of Anne Frank. It doesn't have a great deal of truly
horrific things in it..."just" depictions of prejudice and abuse but it also
is about the awakening of a teenage girl which, I think, is more appropriate
for a child of about 12. Unless you want to cover the Holocaust again at a
later age, I'd wait. Do you truly want to expose your child to something
like "Schindler's List" at age 7?
Even adults have had turned stomachs about this.
By the way, I think I understand the impulse to get your child to learn about
something important to you. I asked my daughter to read Little Women when
she was about 9, I think. I now think that if we had waited until she was
about 12 or 13, she would have liked it better and understood it better.
It's going to be difficult to get her to review it now that she's older...in
fact, I doubt I'll try too hard.
Good luck on whatever you decide.
Cynthia
mseger@... writes:
<<
I honestly think a 7 yo is too young to study the Holocaust. I'm not saying
it shouldn't be mentioned but I think anything much more than that needs to
wait. It's just too horrific. What you're interpreting as indifference from
your child may be a self-protective mechanism that IMO is entirely
justified.
My kids and I got into this around age 10, very carefully. I believe the
Holocaust museum in Washington doesn't recommend visits from people
startling much younger than 12 and that sounds right to me.
>>I agree and might further add that one of the best resources for study of the
Holocaust is the Diary of Anne Frank. It doesn't have a great deal of truly
horrific things in it..."just" depictions of prejudice and abuse but it also
is about the awakening of a teenage girl which, I think, is more appropriate
for a child of about 12. Unless you want to cover the Holocaust again at a
later age, I'd wait. Do you truly want to expose your child to something
like "Schindler's List" at age 7?
Even adults have had turned stomachs about this.
By the way, I think I understand the impulse to get your child to learn about
something important to you. I asked my daughter to read Little Women when
she was about 9, I think. I now think that if we had waited until she was
about 12 or 13, she would have liked it better and understood it better.
It's going to be difficult to get her to review it now that she's older...in
fact, I doubt I'll try too hard.
Good luck on whatever you decide.
Cynthia