Comments on: Fear of Books

By: nitebyrd

nitebyrd — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:22:10 +0000

Never fear books. She’s on a good path to developing her imagination and expand her mind. So what if she finds clowns the scariest things in the world at one point! ;)

By: The Sexologist

The Sexologist — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:59:18 +0000

I remember reading “Tiger Eyes” by Judy Bloom in elementary school. Looking back, I was too young to read it, but thankfully I was also too young to get most of the sexual undertone of the book.

By: Miss F

Miss F — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:36:54 +0000

By age 12 I had read all the books on “paranormal” in the children’s sections of 3 local libraries. At that point I started on Stephen King, Anne Rice etc.. I don’t recall my parents ever telling me not to read, or even paying much attention to what I did read.

They just loved that I read so much. And now I have my own house, my bookcase is full, and my son is in desperate need of some more shelves. It’s my dream to have a library, or at least a room lined with bookshelves filled with books of every kind that will never be out of bounds to anyone.

By: Adrian Hardhand

Adrian Hardhand — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:35:51 +0000

Hello AAG

I think that in many cases parents try to improve what they didn’t like when they were growing up.

Example: My parents both came from large families, and lived in quite small houses. My mother’s four brothers slept in one bed!

So my parents decided to have only7 two children, and they bought a three-bedroom house with a large garden in a nice suburban community.

Yrs in pervery, Adrian

By: Toy With Me

Toy With Me — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:09:05 +0000

As a parent it does not matter what my child is reading, as long as she is reading!

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:13:19 +0000

My parents inspired the same love of Stephen King through their benevolent disregard for whatever I dragged home, be it animals, books, insects or scruffy friends. Maybe most normal parents would think a fourth-grader shouldn’t be allowed to read The Gunslinger, though… Or Carrie. Haha But, discounting my collection of Stephen King tattoos, I don’t think I turned out half bad because of it…-twitchtwitch- Hehehe