Banned Books Week - question

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> As a practical matter, this approach seems to work very well.  By 
the
> time my children have the skill to read a book, they also have the
> ability to understand and evaluate the concepts it contains, at 
least
> partially (and really, there is no one who can analyse every book 
they
> read *completely*).
> 
> Anyway, I bet plenty of you will agree with me, that reading a 
certain
> amount of material that's "not good for you" is good for you.  Yes?


Jen: Yes! And reading things that bother you, challenge your 
worldview and make you uncomfortable, too. I've read certain books 
and seen certain movies that I wouldn't re-visit, but sometimes 
those are the ones that stay with me the longest, because it takes 
so much effort to get past fear of the unknown and find a way to 
reconcile new information with my own belief system. I hope the 
message I'm getting through to my son with both books and TV shows 
is that the important part is *critical thinking* about any 
information you take in, whatever the source.