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Bitchy McBitch (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} evilsqueakers) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
Ten year olds miming murder? We're meant to be okay with that?
Excuse me. I was the ten-year-old that was reading classics because I had run out of BSC and SVH books by that point. Oh, wait. No. There were problems with those books, too. Jessica's sociopathy, Elizabeth's passiveness on most things, Lila's almost rape, death of most of Jessica's boyfriends, drugs, sex, rock-and-roll. Again, I had read a lot of those by 10. I had also read the Little House books, up to her personal letters, along with whatever was on the classics shelf that looked interesting like Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, and several Jane Austen books.
And quite frankly, I do not appreciate this idea that a child must be coddled, treated as no more than a mindless zombie attached to only parental/societal ideals. I was reading before six. On my own. Heck, I used to recite Psalms to my godmoms before I was 6, without having heard them before, because I had reading skills and I loved books that challenged me. To this day, on an average month, I can read 10 books without pause. I'd say that reading those classics didn't brain damage me and helped me on the ACT in high school so that I was half-asleep and scored 28/36 without trying. I knew those words from my childhood, and had processed them by reading them on my own, without assignment. At 29, it's helped me all my life.
My librarians in elementary school knew I was about four grades above the rest of my classmates and would point out the classics in order to give me something to do when I was done with my assignments early on in the day and needed something to keep myself occupied and out of trouble. Clever children are hell in a classroom when bored. I had a lot of straight faces in kindergarten because I talked alot since I was finished and I'd read all the books in the classroom library.
God save any child that must be saved from reflections of past ideals that are still mostly relevant today. You know, in case the kids, want to shape their own views and understand why a friend might be upset over a word tossed at them without needing a For Dummies Junior book attached. People die every day. Why is it wrong to point that out, not look down on the ickle children, and let them make their own decisions?
Excuse me. I was the ten-year-old that was reading classics because I had run out of BSC and SVH books by that point. Oh, wait. No. There were problems with those books, too. Jessica's sociopathy, Elizabeth's passiveness on most things, Lila's almost rape, death of most of Jessica's boyfriends, drugs, sex, rock-and-roll. Again, I had read a lot of those by 10. I had also read the Little House books, up to her personal letters, along with whatever was on the classics shelf that looked interesting like Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, and several Jane Austen books.
And quite frankly, I do not appreciate this idea that a child must be coddled, treated as no more than a mindless zombie attached to only parental/societal ideals. I was reading before six. On my own. Heck, I used to recite Psalms to my godmoms before I was 6, without having heard them before, because I had reading skills and I loved books that challenged me. To this day, on an average month, I can read 10 books without pause. I'd say that reading those classics didn't brain damage me and helped me on the ACT in high school so that I was half-asleep and scored 28/36 without trying. I knew those words from my childhood, and had processed them by reading them on my own, without assignment. At 29, it's helped me all my life.
My librarians in elementary school knew I was about four grades above the rest of my classmates and would point out the classics in order to give me something to do when I was done with my assignments early on in the day and needed something to keep myself occupied and out of trouble. Clever children are hell in a classroom when bored. I had a lot of straight faces in kindergarten because I talked alot since I was finished and I'd read all the books in the classroom library.
God save any child that must be saved from reflections of past ideals that are still mostly relevant today. You know, in case the kids, want to shape their own views and understand why a friend might be upset over a word tossed at them without needing a For Dummies Junior book attached. People die every day. Why is it wrong to point that out, not look down on the ickle children, and let them make their own decisions?
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