Reading books: Our children live in different times |
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A parent was concerned about highly impressionable teenagers possibly being led astray by what she sees as an ever increasing amount of violent and romantic content being narrated in current novels and publications. A tutor/parent who goes by the online moniker TheWriter advises her to adopt a more open-minded (within reasonable limits) approach: |
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"My Chinese and English were improved primarily through watching a lot of television (back when it was called SBC and they actually had variety in their plot) and comic books (the story was interesting enough to force me to use a dictionary). I wouldn't quite suggest a definite causal link, but the point remains that the child has got to like what he or she is reading, and the book is never just a static yarn. It's an opportunity to go through the key themes and explore the characters' motives and development too. I cannot recall which titles would contain explicit language in their stories but I doubt they are from respectable publishers to begin with; it is a business and they're not about to shoot themselves in the foot by marketing children's literature with swear words to you. Nevertheless, I do notice my students progressing to Young Adult fiction when their age bracket would be "Middle Grade". However, if anything, it means we as educators and parents need to be very aware that these children are growing up in times that are very different from our own and work with them rather than against them when it comes to their desired booklist." |
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THANK YOU THEWRITER FOR ALLOWING US TO REPRODUCE YOUR THOUGHTS HERE. The Czar (Site Founder) Dated 8 May 2014 |
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