Harry without parent/guardian was Re: What do you watch?

[kemper mentor]

Harry Potter has Harry growing up parentless.  He lives at the Dursley's but he survives their guardianship.  Harry has mentors at Hogwarts but they don't parent; he 'parents' himself.  No one tells him when to go to bed, when to study, when to get up for school (by the way... how unrealistic is that for a teen without an alarm clock? I have trouble enough getting up for work with one), when to buck up and stop being a crybaby to his friends.  So much of children's literature is sans parent: either by death or abandonment or ignorance or incompetence or wickedness or whatever.  It is the fantasy, good or bad, of a life without the parent(s).  Over all, that's a powerful and scary world.  Makes for a good story.  
 
I agree that there is crap for kids on tv, but we as parents/guardians need to monitor that because our kid isn't going to parent themselves, probably.  Unfortunately, there are too many who are too tired or care too little about their young that crappy tv is viable option.

But maybe I'm wrong.
Kemper

		
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