Michelle or Vern Hunt

I agree with you Joyce, I find my kids (so far anyway) have picked books
and movies they are "ready" for. They also seem to self-regulate what they
want to see or read, for instance my daughter will simply up and leave if
the movie we are watching is too much for her...my middle son will tell me
if a book is too much for him and we'll stop reading it ...sometimes it's
the Hardy Boys he won't want and then he'll go ahead and watch something "I"
think is scary...which leads us into lots of squealing (mostly me!) and
snuggling. I think too as Tia said, a lot of it goes over their heads.
They really are not capable of understanding some of the more adult concepts
being brought up. But some of it gets us into many discussions on morality,
other people's viewpoints and world events that we may not have entered into
had we not watched something "age inappropriate".

Michelle H


Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 21:30:44 -0400
> From: Fetteroll <fetteroll@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: "Fluff" books/age appropriateness
>
> on 5/22/02 8:55 PM, Tim Traaseth at timt@... wrote:
>
> > I want to let my children choose what they learn, but are they
> > always ready emotionally for whatever, whenever??
>
> Why do you think children would read something they aren't emotionally
ready
> for?
>
> If he read Jurassic Park and found it upsetting do you think he'd feel
> compelled for some reason to keep reading or to not skip over the
upsetting
> parts? Why?
>
> Do children lack the ability to recognize uncomfortableness and to stop
what
> they're doing?
>
> Society may treat them so, but it seems to me children are a *lot* better
at
> that than adults are! ;-)

Joyce