Comments on: Why I Let My Child Read Books About Burping and Underwear https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/ Screen-Free Activities and Books for Kids Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:00:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Erica MomandKiddo https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-156255 Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:11:59 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-156255 In reply to Angela Tuson.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

]]> By: Erica MomandKiddo https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-156254 Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:11:35 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-156254 In reply to Bridget Haig.

Exactly!

]]> By: Bridget Haig https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-156165 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:51:20 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-156165 My son was 6 years old almost 7 when Harry Potter came out, he wanted to try a read it himself. He did and he's been reading ever since. I always tell parents as long as the book is age appropriate that's all that matters.

]]> By: Angela Tuson https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-156138 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:41:23 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-156138 I just loved this post, thank you. I always feel satisfied reading or hearing (same thing) people's ideas that exactly match my own. I'm a children's librarian, and I've found Captain Underpants an invaluable tool for 'bumping up' reading level: it combines pictures and text in a pre-graphic novel way (showing how speech can be bubbled etc), it makes people laugh (my mother and I thoroughly enjoyed The Perilous Plot name changes and spent a happy Xmas Holiday once changing politicians names in front of the news and sniggering), and it has a sophistication-step. I can explain that, I think. "Harold and George were usually responsible boys. Whenever anything happened, Harold and George were usually responsible!" Most of the children who attend the library where I work in South Africa are English Second Language users, and a joke like that - on those phrases involving the word 'usually' is a step that needs to be taken in order to make sense of the text. But they 'get it', and take that step, and are immediately ready for more complex texts. Thank you Dav Pilkey!

]]> By: Erica MomandKiddo https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-149378 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:47:02 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-149378 In reply to Michelle.

Thank you for sharing your experience, Michelle. Happy reading to you and your son!

]]> By: Michelle https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-148910 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:24:24 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-148910 I so agree with you in letting them choose their own books (within reason . . . no Stephen King for a 5 year old!); it's the process of choosing that matters. While I was in graduate school studying English Literature, one of our party games was to compare notes on our "inappropriate" reading as children. (Not surprisingly, we had all been voracious readers.) Mine included all of the Agatha Christie murder mystery novels when I was about 9 and Roots at 12. I pulled those books and many others off my parents' bookshelves without ever thinking to ask whether or not it was okay, just like many great writers read their way through their own parents' libraries. (I'm no great writer, but in this I feel a kinship with them). And speaking from my perspective as an adult, I am so grateful to my parents for always encouraging me to read pretty much whatever captured my attention. When I was a senior in high school I purchased Margaret Atwood's just-published The Handmaid's Tale because I had read a few reviews and it sounded interesting--my first independent purchase of serious, adult literature. Many years later, I took that time-worn book to a signing for Oryx and Crake and told Ms. Atwood the story of my book. She looked at me thoughtfully and asked, "What did your parents think about that?" and I was as proud then as I am now that I had no idea. It hadn't even crossed my mind to wonder. That freedom is a gift I hope to give my son as he starts this year and next to read on his own. Bring on the underpants!

]]> By: Erica MomandKiddo https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-56328 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:13:16 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-56328 In reply to SilentPocketWatch.

Thank you for you comment! I agree, parents should do what works for them.

]]> By: SilentPocketWatch https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-56301 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:19:53 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-56301 In reply to SilentPocketWatch.

Excuse me; depart from it.

]]> By: SilentPocketWatch https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-56299 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:18:15 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-56299 I must disagree. While I am not religious myself, the following phrase holds an element of truth; "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." If he or she is raised with good taste, and knows well what it is and what it is not, he or she will not depart it.

]]> By: Erica MomandKiddo https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/why-i-let-my-child-read-books-about-burping-and-underwear/#comment-17233 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:21:12 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=300#comment-17233 In reply to Anya.

That's how I feel, too. I won't pick it out for him, but if he choses it, he can read it. I find he's not even interested in reading content that I would consider too mature. He's his own best censor!

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